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" Industrialization and urbanization has been with us for 200+ years now, but the modern preservation movement grew out of the 1960's, not the 1860's."

I would say it began somewhat earlier, with Colonial williamsburg, the restoration of first Greenwich village then Brooklyn heights and Georgetown, etc. Before the battle over Grand Central. And I think the sense of rootlessness was far greater by the mid 20th century than the 1860s - the US was not majority urban till 1920, mass marketing and advertising didnt become dominant till the 20s, there was still a lot of artisan production in the 1860s, etc. Urban areas in the US still had stronger rural roots (in both domestic and international migration) in the 19th century, transport and communications were still slower and more constraining, etc.

Why do we get something like Ginsburg's Howl postwar, and not in the 1870s? the entire corpus of reaction to consumer society?

by AWallkerInTheCity on Aug 1, 2012 4:46 pm • link • report

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