This document discusses the transformation from the traditional metropolis to the post-metropolis. It describes how the rise of the industrial metropolis led to massive urbanization, heightened nationalism, and increased spatial differentiation. It then outlines some key aspects of the transition to the post-metropolis, including decentralization, cultural fragmentation, and new geographies of inequality defined by income and ethnicity. Examples are provided of Manchester transforming into a modern metropolis and Chicago's development.
The Rise and Cultural Fragmentation of Modern Metropolis
1. Metropolis and Post-Metropolis
Iconic Modern Places, Pt. 3
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Urbanization = Social-Structural Differentiation
Density ➥ Complexity
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Differentiation
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Urbanization = Social-Structural Differentiation
Density ➥ Complexity
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Differentiation
Centralization
Traditional Urbanization
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Third Urban Revolution:
The Metropolis
“The metropolis has invariably functioned as the
privileged figure of modernity . . . [It] represents the
highest form assumed by both economic and aesthetic
forces. [It] becomes both a model of economic and
social development, and a metaphor of modernity...”
Iain Chambers, Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity, p.
55
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Third Urban
Revolution
• The rise of the modern industrial
metropolis
- First modern factories were built
outside the city
‣ Small city size made noxious
production intolerable
‣ Cheaper, more abundant energy
‣ Less organized (therefore
cheaper) workforce
- When industrial production entered
4. the city, the metropolis was born
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Third Urban
Revolution
• The industrial metropolis involved:
- Massive urbanization (Britain
80% rural in 1750, 80% urban in
1900)
- The rise of nationalism (cities
condensed and focused the
material and symbolic capital of
the nation-state)
- Heightened state administration
to organize industrial capitalism
5. - Increased spatial differentiation
(rise of the modern suburbs)
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Third Urban Revolution:
Case Studies
Manchester, England
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Third Urban Revolution:
Case Studies
Manchester, England
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Manchester, England: The Modern Metropolis
• 1700s: served as a collection point
for surrounding towns, villages and
farms engaged in handweaving (to
supplement decreasing income from
agriculture)
• The density of cotton-spinning in the
region surrounding Manchester
sparked commercial differentiation/
specialization
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Manchester: Density,
Differentiation,
7. Complexity
Large scale environmental
manipulation--canals, mines,
railroads
Bridgewater Canal, Britain’s first artificial waterway
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Manchester: Density, Differentiation, Complexity
Commodities traders emerged--
cotton shipped in from America,
finished textiles and other textile
related commodities shipped out
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8. Growth of machine
manufacturers in Manchester to
support textile industry, later
developed into general
machinery
Manchester: Density,
Differentiation,
Complexity
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Manchester: Density,
Differentiation,
Complexity
Growth of chemical industry,
originally to provide textile
manufacturers with dye and bleach
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Growth of financing and banking
to support growing and changing
industries
Manchester: Density,
Differentiation,
Complexity
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Growth of commercial enterprise
to support bourgeois domestic
life: real estate developers,
homeware, public and private
10. education, cultural institutions ...
SUBURBANIZATION
Manchester: Density,
Differentiation,
Complexity
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Chicago: America’s
Manchester
• Began life as a small military
fort
• Rapid growth due to man-
made canals and railroad
• Centralized industry
spawned concentric-ring city
11. • Unlike Manchester, (and New
York, London, etc.) Chicago
didn’t have an “old city” so
the industrial metropolitan
form is more clearly visible
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Erie Canal, New York
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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
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Urbanization = Social-Structural Differentiation
Density ➥ Complexity
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➥
Differentiation
13. Centralization
Traditional Urbanization
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I. Decentralization
II. Post-Fordism
III. Fragmented Inequality
IV. Globalization
V. Carceral Enclaves
The Fourth Urban
14. Revolution: Post-
Metropolis
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I. Decentralization:
The Explosion of the City-Region
• The industrial city was structured
through the logic of centrality: the
center organizes the periphery
• Segregated communities
connected through centralized
social institutions and centralized
transportation networks (trains,
street cars, buses)
The Chicago School
15. “Concentric Zone Model” (1925)
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Decentralization: The Explosion of the City-Region
• The post-metropolis is structured by
several different logics:
1. postfordist capitalism (flexible,
contingent labor; service sector
dominance)
2. automobility (the automobile as
integral to daily life; the auto as a
technological extension of the
body)
3. radical individualism (a loss of a
sense of public solidarity, common
16. good)
• Segregated communities connected
through decentralized social institutions
and decentralized transportation
networks
Michael Dear
“Postmodern Urban Structure” (1998)
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Postmetropolitan transformation of the classic urban
concentric ring model
Multinucleated Metropolitan Region
“postmetropolis and postsuburbia”
Home
Work, Politics, Culture
17. Modern Industrial Urban Model
“city & suburb”
Work,
Politics,
Culture
Suburban Single-Family Homes
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II. Post-Fordism:
Restructuring Capitalism in the City
• Post-Fordism
- Rapid movement of capital
- Short-term, contingent
labor
- Outsourcing; sub-
18. contracting
- Increased socio-spatial
specialization (high-tech;
entertainment; bio-tech;
finance); vertical
disintegration
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Post-Fordism: Restructuring Capitalism in the City
Labor in Post-Fordism
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III. Fragmented Inequality:
New Geographies of
19. Ethnicity and Income
• The Traditional Models:
- Polar City: Bourgeois/
Proletariat (19th c.
Manchester, UK)
- Hierarchical City: Poor,
Middle Class, Wealthy
(London, New York)
- Racially Divided City: Black
vs. White (Detroit, Baltimore)
• Fourth Urban Revolution
- Metro-polar City:
“Polymorphous and
Fractured Social Geometry”
Chicago, IL
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Philadelphia, PA
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Baltimore, MD
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Los Angeles, CA
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21. Los Angeles, CA
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Chicago, IL
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Postmetropolitan transformation of the classic urban
concentric ring model
Multinucleated Metropolitan Region
“postmetropolis and postsuburbia”
Home
Work, Politics, Culture
Modern Industrial Urban Model
22. “city & suburb”
Work,
Politics,
Culture
Suburban Single-Family Homes
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Background Culture
(Binaries, Scripts,
Narratives)
The Cultural Fragmentation of Modernity
• Cultural De-fusion is a fundamental aspect of modern life
because of the
endless plurality of background cultural elements and audience
groups
Actor’s
Performance
24. The Cultural Fragmentation of Modernity
• Cultural De-fusion is a fundamental aspect of modern life
because of the
endless plurality of background cultural elements and audience
groups
Cultural
Symbols
Audience
Reception
Misinterpretation Miscommunication
Alienation/DistanceCynical/False/Inauthentic
relation to background culture➪ ➪
No single background
culture in modern
societies
No single audience in
modern societies
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Background Culture
(Binaries, Scripts,
Narratives)
The Cultural Fragmentation of Modernity
Actor’s
Performance
Audience
Reception
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Cultural Fusion
Interpretation Communication
Psychological IdentificationCathexis
Narrower, Local Scales
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