Structural urban change arrived bundled with industrial and political revolution

Evidence

While no process of change can be precisely dated, let us, for simplicity, “bound” this transformation within the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This is also the period we conventionally think of as the era of revolutions-industrial, technological, and urban (as well as political). And it seems hardly a coincidence that changes in the ordering of urban public space should coincide with other convulsive historical changes. Indeed, they seem each to be elements of a sweeping alteration in the human condition and, as such, interrelated and intertwined in a complex chain of mutual cause and effect. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 303

Categorization

• QUESTION: The ‘sweeping alteration in the human condition’ thesis is vaguely stated here—worth chasing exactly which shared structural causes linked industrialization with the collapse of appearential ordering.
• XREF: connects to: The municipal reform ethos imported empiricism and scientific management from industry — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 255