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13 de dic. de 2023 · When Barry Levinson, director of Diner (1982) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), approached writer and producer Tom Fontana – who had a background in television and theatre – to help him bring the...
25 de mar. de 2022 · Since most homes did not have running water or sanitation, people resorted to dumping their filth and waste into the street. This made the streets of industrial towns incredibly dirty places to live but also allowed communicable disease to spread easily from one individual to another.
While few took to the streets to demand the reform of local government, urban radicals played a significant role in the long-drawn-out campaigns for the extension of the franchise. During the 1790s, a powerful political infrastructure was created in the form of the corresponding societies.
14 de sept. de 2018 · London's streets have always been thronged, bustling with vendors and the cries of hawkers. Rosalie Wiesner explores how encounters on London streets have inspired artists and photographers across the years.
22 de jul. de 2013 · The city is one of the most striking examples of rational urban planning, conducted in the middle of the nineteenth century during the “Second Empire” of Napoleon III to ease congestion in the...
Simultaneously, the revolution catalyzed global trade expansion. Goods produced in the factories of Europe and North America found their way to distant markets, creating a more interconnected world economy.
24 de jul. de 2018 · The Industrial Revolution would turn London into one of the world’s first megacities as it grew the swallow up several parishes and areas that had once been farmland and created new demands on city services thanks to overcrowding.
