Next class:• city and country: size and location of cities

real and imagined experienceclass differentiatedsocial sciences to ‘map’ realitygenderedpublic spaces

• homes: separate from workideally private, but not necessarilythe idea of décor

• contact and contagion

In study the past,when does space matter?

Random admixture of bodies, classes, and substancesstreets: study of where and how people live

sorts of dwellings (slums)movement between home and work

Spectatorship: pleasure, commodities, knowledge, filth, transgression, redemption

Movement tension between private and public

Movement of human waste/movement of humans

Social Cartography: Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903).

BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal.

DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual. Chronic want.

LIGHT BLUE: Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family

PURPLE: Mixed. Some comfortable others poor

PINK: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings.

RED: Middle class. Well-to-do.

YELLOW: Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy.

A combination of colours - as dark blue or black, or pink and red - indicates that the street contains a fair proportion of each of the classes represented by the respective colours.In the first volume of the poverty series in the final edition of Life

             

Urban identities: asserted and subverted

► “cottaging”

Trafalgar Square The Fourth Plinth

► Edgbaston suburbs► ► ‘through’ terraced

housing

back to back

Victorian parlour (reconstructed)

matchbox-maker evicted, Bethnal Green

“One in four people have paranoid thoughts while on the tube”- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Well, no doubt•¼ commuters had bacteria from faeces on their hands•gets worse further north•men worse than women

(except in London)•bus travellers worse than tube riders

Public vehicles and hire1850s-1870s

Led literally to the creation of the first municipal ambulance service

1. class contamination and corrupting influences (what to do?)

2. legibility and spectatorship on urban landscape

London Fever HospitalMiddle classes:

horrified others are taking their sick/dead in cabsandHorrified they can’t find decent cabs for their own family members

Conclusion

Unease about levelling of established hierarchies

Spectacle, mobility, and contamination

Not all singing orphans: Actually killed people