1. Next class: city and country: size and location of cities real and imagined experience class differentiated social sciences to ‘map’ reality gendered public spaces homes:separate from work ideally private, but not necessarily the idea of décor contact and contagion

2. In study the past, when does space matter?

3. Random admixture of bodies, classes, and substances streets:study of where and how people live sorts of dwellings (slums) movement between home and work Spectatorship: pleasure, commodities, knowledge, filth, transgression, redemption Movement: tension between private and public Movement:of human waste/movement of humans

4. Social Cartography: Charles Booth’s Inquiry into Life and Labour in London (1886-1903). BLACK: Lowest class. Vicious, semi-criminal. DARK BLUE: Very poor, casual. Chronic want. LIGHT BLUE: Poor. 18s. to 21s. a week for a moderate family PURPLE: Mixed. Some comfortable others poor PINK: Fairly comfortable. Good ordinary earnings. RED: Middle class. Well-to-do. YELLOW: Upper-middle and Upper classes. Wealthy. A combination of colours - as dark blue or black, or pink and red - indicates that the street contains a fair proportion of each of the classes represented by the respective colours. In the first volume of the poverty series in the final edition of Life

5. Urban identities: asserted and subverted ► ► “cottaging” Trafalgar Square The 4th Plinth

6. ► ► Edgbaston suburbs ► ► ► ► ‘through’ terraced housing back to back

7. Victorian parlour (reconstructed) matchbox-maker evicted, Bethnal Green

8. The inside outside … and working at home did not ‘fit’ middle class ideal

9. “One in four people have paranoid thoughts while on the tube” - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Well, no doubt ¼ commuters had bacteria from faeces on their hands gets worse further north men worse than women (except in London) bus travellers worse than tube riders

10. Disease breeding interiors: Small pox Typhus Scarletina Scabies Favus Choleric diarrhoea

11. Public vehicles and hire 1850s-1870s Led literally to the creation of the first municipal ambulance service 1. The author begins with and includes lots of juicy letters/reports about cabs and illness. This both catches and keeps readers’ attention, but it does more. Why all are those anecdotes important? 2. legibility and specta torship on urban landscape

12. 2. 2.The author begins with and includes lots of juicy letters/reports about cabs and illness. This both catches and keeps readers’ attention, but it does more. Why all are those anecdotes important? Hansom Cab Clarence cab (growler) Omnibuses (from 1820s) – many people sit inside and on the roof

13. London Fever Hospital Middle classes: horrified others are taking their sick/dead in cabs and Horrified they can’t find decent cabs for their own family members

14. Cab men 4. Cab drivers come in for some special attention in the article – he argues they are both rogues, and men who end up being stuck working to transport rogues. Discuss some of the ways the actions of these drivers impacted carriage use.

15. The second section of the article details a succession of measures aimed to ‘solve’ the problem of infectious Londoners:the 1853 Hackney Carriage Bill The Sanitary Act The 1867 Metropolitan Poor Act [creation of Fever Hospitals] The Hospitals Carriage Fund Discuss the intent and unintended consequences of these.

16. “black death cart” People still stop and look at accident scenes. What does he mean that “visuality” contributed to communities’ unwillingness to have ambulance ply their streets? What all did ambulance companies try in order to have their conveyances become acceptable?

17. Conclusion Unease about levelling of established hierarchies Spectacle, mobility, and contamination Not all singing orphans