- The Metropolis and Mental Life” focuses on elucidating the “modern aspects of contemporary life with reference to their inner meaning."
- Due to the intensification of external and internal sensual stimuli in the city as compared to a rural setting, the metropolis fosters a situation where one must buffer him or herself from a constantly changing environment.
Dresden Exhibition
- The effect of the city on the individual.
- (Herbert Bayer - Lonely Metropolitan) 1932
What is Urban Sociology?
Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing so provide inputs for planning and policy making.
Louis Sullivan:
- Creator of the modern skyscraper
- Guaranty Building
Modern Times 1936 - Charlie Chaplin
Stock market crash of 1929
Lead to great depression
Factories close and unemployment goes up
The Naked City - Barry Fitzgerald
LA Noire 2011, uses 32 surrounding cameras to capture actors facial expressions.
- Walter Benjamin
- Adopts the concept of the urban explorer as an analytical tool
Venice
- Labryinth
- Don't look now (1973) Nichols Roeg
- Postmodern City in photography Joel Meyerowitz Broadway and West 46th Street
What is flaneur?
- Surveillance City
- 9/11 prompted rise is security
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