Mr.+Reidy's+stuff

Class #2: You have three parts to your assignment this evening. First, if necessary, please finish your observations and inferences of individual images that we began to examine in class today. For each image, we were writing 2-4 inferences that can be made based on your observations. We are examining 1-4, 6-15, 17-19, 21, and 24. Follow this link [|Paris and Vienna: 19th C. models of urbanization] to get to these images electronically. Remember we began to make connections between images based our observations/inferences. Here were the groupings I provided: a) 1 and 4 b) 2,3,10-12,15,17 c) 4, 6-9 d) 13, 14, 21, 24 e) your original So the second part of your assignment is to finish writing out these connections. Third, read Engels' impressions of British cities. Note: you have this handout, but I included the pdf here as well. When reading, practice your marking up strategies (active reading) so that you are able to do two things next class: (a) summarize his impressions with clarity and brevity in writing, and (b) compare and contrast British cities with what you saw in Paris and Vienna in discussion.

Class #3 Please read excerpts from The World Goes to Town (handout). You also have hard copy of the pdf. Focus on 'Strange Allure..., Cul-de-sac..., and Thronged (p.5-14) when marking up that reading. Practice making connections between historical events by comparing and contrasting modern urbanization and 19th century urbanization. Your comparisons and contrasts should lead you to even wider arguments about urbanization across time, which you will share next class.

It may be helpful to get started on our next assignment, explained below, as it is quite long for a one-night assignment but still critical for our discussion in class #5.

Class #4 One major part of today's class was to look at 19th century British politics as it relates to industrialization and urbanization. Our work today begs the question - what constitutes good government? To help us answer this question, read 647-656 in the textbook and pages 11-20 in the scanned document above. We will be having a seminar discussion on how governments acted in our case studies, and your judgment of their actions in our next class.