MODERN CITIES

Verzeiht, dass dies auf Englich geschrieben ist.
 

Seven Cities

AMSTERDAM     PARIS     VIENNA    LONDON    BERLIN        MOSCOW           NYC
17TH C                18TH C    19TH C        19TH C        19TH C        1920S              1980S
HOLLAND       FRANCE    AUSTRIA   ENGLAND   PRUSSIA       USSR               USA
Amstel                Seine             Danube        Thames           Spree         Moskva             Hudson

oligar                    abol mo       monar            parl mo   parl mon          one party          presid dem
                                                      state
mayor                 mayor             mayor             mayor     mayor             mayor              mayor
council                 council           council        council        council                                    council
shipping                  lux                 textil            bank          bank             text                   bank
trnsfr prt                crafts                beer
wheat                 admin                 luxur             ind           mach              electr                 text
bank                    tourism              mach          publ                                                         comm
                        banking                publ            tourism        tourism                                  tourism
art                       a rt                    music         museums         art               opera              theatre
                          drama                drama         drama             music             ballet              opera
                          theatre               food             writing           writing        circus                 art
                                                   sports             writing
                             food

CULTURAL OUTBURST
1620S-            1760s-                 1850s          1870s            1710s         1880s-             1870s-
 1650s             1780s                    1880s         1920s             1850s-         1910s          1880s
                      1830s                   1980s             1890s               1920s
                      1860s-                   1920s            1970s-
                       1870                     1980s            1980s
                      1930s
                      1980s

REASONS FOR OUTBURSTS

Governmental stability
Economic stability, if not growth
Administrative moderate oppression, inefficiency or support
Sufficient population
Sufficient wealth for patronage and attendance of showings and events
Reputation of some artists to attract others
              tourists and other travellers saying
                 positive things
Competition among artists/intellectual excitement
Reasonable rents and excellent inexpensive food
Places to sit for hours to talk: Paris...cafees, Vienna...Kaffeehaeser
Religious tolerance/or at least tolerance of some deviations

REASONS FOR CONCLUSION OF OUTBURST
war/invasion
completely unsupportive government (Moscow 1917/Berlin 1933)
economic disaster accompanied by depression, unemployment
                     high inflation (1930s)
alteration in trade routes (Amsterdam)
decline in resources
competition from other cities