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inferior to many citizens of London. Hospitals were not the only problem because the disposal of waste might have been just as evenly bad. “How to dispose of the accumulated waste was a problem that preoccupied the minds of countless reformers, engineers, scientists, and amateur sanitarians, but the problem acquired a particular urgency because the retention of waste in the city was associated with disease and even death…” (Cleansing the City p. 9-10). Many places in London had terrible sewage issues

Final Exam Perspectives on Amsterdam Lance Gloss #11357592 Responses follow. Question 1 In recent years, Amsterdam’s energy system has been revolutionized by decentralization and process-flow controls. According to Ger Baron, rather than a single energy provider, Amsterdam now has over 600. The city can now limit power-outages to certain neighborhoods, and prioritize other areas where power supply should never be cut off. Wisely employed, these systems can improve Amsterdam’s

Britain, since the 1960’s, there was mass immigration from many countries around the globe, including the majority of people coming from South Asia, Africa and the West Indies. This mass immigration clearly had a direct impact on the transformation of London and turned it into the ‘multi-ethnic city’ that we have today. However, it is debatable whether this entire process of large scale immigration can be considered a ‘smooth process’ due to the fact that there were many challenges that immigrants had

5. William Blake: London From Within If we want to discover the particularity of eighteenth century London’s appearance or the details of its growth, there are both scholarly and temporary guides to consult. Through the historical background exposed in the previous chapters, in fact, we came across only to the objective point of view of the city, but if we want to discover the feel of London life, its people, its sounds and smells there is a more direct source: literature. Through poems we can

or disreputable character; language of a low and vulgar type. The following meaning, which apparently originated in the 18th century among organized criminals (Ayto 2005), was soon extended to still fairly unfavorable sense of a language of a highly colloquial type, considered as below the level of standard educated speech […]. Nonetheless, after the mid-eighteenth century, the concept in question has gradually started to shed the pejorative patina (Mattiello 2008); therefore, currently many – or

Life in the 19th century changed rapidly due to the influences of the industrial revolution, which lead to the mass production of goods, making products more affordable for common people. Industrialisation lead to urbanisation and more people flocked from rural areas to towns creating more disease, and by the end of the 1800’s 80% of the population of Britain lived in cities. Steam powered cotton factories supplied half of the world and coal mining, in areas such as Newcastle, expanded to meet the

Prices Vs. Household Income Greenwich Millennium Village is a Development project situated in the Royal Borough of Greenwich. The scheme is to promote 21st-century affordable, sustainable living in the U.K. It is conveniently located in south-east London, and a short distance away from the financial centre and gives easy access to Central London. The site is a 121-hectare brownfield development with easy bus travelling, and cycling route, a primary school, a health centre, two grocery stores and suitable

means by which the deadly Vibrio Cholorae was able to devastate a developing section of London in only a week’s time at the start of September in 1854. Johnson offers details on the development of cities, which supplied the perfect environment for the bacterium to thrive and kill off thousands of people in weeks. Before the 1854 epidemic, Cholera was an unidentifiable mystery to the scientists and thinkers of London. Theories of how the illness spread and how it was to be cured varied extensively, each

in two main areas; education and politics. With universal compulsory education in Britain only being constitutionally enforced with the 1870 Education Act1, women had little opportunity to gain any form of coherent education in the early 19 th century; tuition was largely confined to the upper class, and even then, through instruction of private

Alyssa Douglas NS 350 Ghost Map In 1854 the city London was the most populated in the world. In just ninety square miles there was over two million currently living there. During this time period having so many people in such a tight place was unknown. With the constant population growth it caused a number of problems. The main problem that was faced was the mass amount of waste and where to put it. Families used water closets, but even with the water closets their waste was emptied into cesspools