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Ideas of the metropolis : Anglo American conference of historians 2009

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Ideas of the metropolis : Anglo American conference of historians 2009

Sujet

, métropole, culture urbaine, identité, status, prestige, histoire urbaine, Keene Derek

Description

This lecture was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'.

Conference description by the organisers :

The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.
 
2011 paper of the same name (a revised version of this lecture) :
 
This article reviews uses of the term ‘metropolis’ to denote cities of a distinctive character, principally from the first to the late twentieth century A.D. ‘Metropolis’ is a ‘significant word’ with special resonance and power. Urban historians will profit from giving its uses careful attention. Those uses reveal, in particular contexts, ideas and ambitions concerning the status, authority and identity of both cities and peoples. They are often vague, rhetorical or boosterish, but just as often their precision adds to our understanding of contemporary thought. Often the term relates to a concern with the past or the future, or to senses of transience or regret. Equally significant are those cases where important cities were not described as metropolises, although occasionally modern historians have come to believe mistakenly that they were. Phases in the use of the term can be identified, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth century when London became an influential model. In recent decades social scientists and bureaucrats have abused the term, but in some contexts ‘metropolis’ still has cultural and political power.

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See also recordings of the other conference sessions: What is a city? The English experience Cities and peripheries Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990 Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion  

Créateur

Derek Keene

Date

2 July 2009

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http://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/anglo-american-conference/id440518170