New video episode, Tiny Jails!
I look at village lock ups, small jails that were used from the 1700s onwards, before professional policing.
I look at village lock ups, small jails that were used from the 1700s onwards, before professional policing.
Another episode (at last!).
Suggested reading:
Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map
Further reading:
Dick Cluster and Rafael Hernández, The History of Havana
Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
Unesco information on Havana http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/204
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Further reading:
Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity, Harvard University Press, 1995.
Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, ‘The Flâneur on and Off the Streets of Paris’, in The Flâneur, ed. Keith Tester; Routledge, 1994.
Further reading:
Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
Henri Lefebvre, Writings on Cities
This episode discusses the work of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin.
Further reading:
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, Harvard University Press
The Chicago School of urban sociology have been tremendously influential in the study of cities. This episode discusses some aspects of their work.
Further reading:
M. P. Smith, The City and Social Theory, New York, 1979
Peter Saunders, Social Theory and the Urban Question, London, 1981
Robert Park, E.W.Burgess, R.D.McKenzie, The City: Suggestions for the Study of Human Nature in the Urban Environment, Chicago, 1925
Richard Sennett (ed), Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities, New York, 1969
Welcome to the Cities in History site. This will be a regular podcast discussing different aspects of urban history.
The first episode was recorded on Friday. I introduce some of the themes of the series, and I look forward to listener suggestions for future topics.