The revolution was a cultural eventuality that influenced people’s lives in many different aspects, scientific advancements and technological innovations led to the rise of Industries and mass production, it also inspired pioneers and brought us inventions like the telegraph and the telephone during the 19th century , but every phenomenon has its positive and negative outcomes. There were many consequences from the period of the industrial revolution which resulted in detrimental impacts to the environment of these expanding cities. In the essay I am going to discuss the significant impact’s that the industrial revolution had on cities and urban expansions which caused various environmental problems, I am also going to attempt to explain and elaborate on how planners and designers took different initiatives to “reform” and “improve” the industrial city through the medium of public landscapes.
During the early 19th century the industrial revolution created countless job opportunities and demand for employment was at its optimum. Naturally man has always been accustomed to move
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Alexis de Tocqueville, a French traveller and writer, visited Manchester in 1835 and commented on the environmental hazards. “From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilise the whole world. From this filthy sewer, gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development, and it’s brutish; here civilisation works its miracles and civilised man is turned back almost into a savage.”(4) He talks about the industries and its appalling working condition and yet its production benefits the whole world, where the industrialists become wealthier and workers tend to live in terrible and disastrous states, which he refers them as savages(4) because of the polluted environments with in those working class