The city in the 20th century
, histoire urbaine, art dans la ville, innovation, culture urbaine, géographie urbaine, développement urbain, mutation urbaine, twentieth century, vintième siècle, Bragg Melvyn, Hall Peter, Massey Doreen
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners of the geographer’s art; Professor Doreen Massey, who was awarded the Vautrin Lud International Geography prize - the geographer’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and Sir Peter Hall, whose books include The World Cities and Cities Tomorrow. They take a twentieth century perspective on the development of the city. How have cities changed since 1900, and what is their future? How has the 20th century been the century of the city?</div>
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<b>Melvyn Bragg</b> is an author, broadcaster and media personality.</div>
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<b>Sir Peter Hall</b> is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London, Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Academia Europea.</div>
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<b>Doreen Massey</b> is Professor of Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, Open University and recipient of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize and the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society.</div>
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Melvyn Bragg,
Peter Hall,
Doreen Massey
12 November 1998
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005457r
In our time : The city - a history, part 2
, transport, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine, infrastructures, développement urbain, Bragg Melvyn, Hall Peter, Burdett Ricky, Hunt Tristram
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Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city.<br />
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George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years later that rail networks began to spring up to ferry workers in and out of the centre of British cities. When they did, this had a vast, transforming effect on the whole nature of cities - taking the pressure off dense, overcrowded central areas, but helping cities like London explode outwards.<br />
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Victorian London was widely held at the time to be rather chaotic - especially in comparison with the grandiose, highly-orchestrated developments in continental European cities like Paris and Barcelona.<br />
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The process of transformation was given another fillip by the introduction of the motor car. In this, the final part of a two-part special edition of 'In Our Time' exploring the development of cities, we're going to examine how Stephenson's invention transformed cities almost beyond recognition, and follow the story up to the present day.</div>
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<b>Melvyn Bragg</b> is an author, broadcaster and media personality.<br />
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<b>Peter Hall</b> is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.</div>
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<b>Tristram Hunt</b> is lecturer in History at Queen Mary College at the University of London.</div>
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<b>Ricky Burdett</b> is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics.</div>
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Melvyn Bragg,
Peter Hall,
Tristram Hunt,
Ricky Burdett
1 April 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rp1fd
In our time : The city - a history, part 1
, histoire urbaine, cité, genèse des villes, Bragg Melvyn, Hall Peter, Merritt Julia, Woolfis Greg
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<p>Melvyn Bragg presents the first of a two-part discussion about the history of the city. With Peter Hall, Julia Merritt and Greg Woolf.</p>
<p>The story of cities is widely held to begin in the 8th millennium BC in Mesopotamia. By 4000 BC, there were cities in the Indus Valley, by 3000 BC in Egypt, and by 2000 BC in China. What happened in the west was the furthest ripple of that phenomenon.</p>
<p>In 1000 BC Athens still only had a population of one thousand. At its height, Athens' position as a powerful Mediterranean trading city allowed it to become the birthplace of much that would later characterise western cities, from politics through architecture to culture.</p>
<p>Then, early in the first millenium AD, the world saw its first million-strong city: Rome. Maintaining a population of this size required stupendous feats of organisation and ingenuity. But in following centuries, as Rome declined and fell, the city itself, in the west at least, declined too; power emanated from kings and their mobile courts, rather than particular settlements.</p>
<p>In China, urban trading posts continued to flourish, but their innovative energy dwindled before the end of the first millennium.</p>
<p>Between 1150 and the onset of the Black Death in 1350, the city underwent a resurgence in Europe. City-states developed in Italy and in Germany.</p>
<p>At this stage, there was no omnipotent power-centre to match Ancient Rome. But with the growth of sea and then ocean trade, and the centralisation of power in capitals ruling nation-states, cities like London, Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam and St Petersburg became increasingly wealthy, dynamic and ostentatious. By 1801, one of these - London - finally matched Ancient Rome's peak population of a million.</p>
<p>Along the way, the city had become an ideal to be revered and a spectre to be feared.</p>
<p><b>Melvyn Bragg </b>is an author, broadcaster and media personality.</p>
<p><b>Peter Hall</b> is Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.</p>
<p><b>Julia Merritt</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham.</p>
<p><b>Greg Woolfis</b> is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews.</p>
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Melvyn Bragg,
Peter Hall,
Julia Merritt,
Greg Woolfis
25 March 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rfhx2