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SUMMARY:Capitalism and the City: Friedrich Engels in the Urban World
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DESCRIPTION:Friedrich Engels’s time in Manchester had a profound influenc
 e on his Marxist ideas which now shape the way we see cities around the 
 world - according to two of the country’s leading experts on the subject
 .\n \nTV Historian Tristram Hunt will reveal how the co-author of the ic
 onic Communist Manifesto - written with Marx himself - discovered that M
 anchester’s class divisions influenced the way roads were built\, neighb
 ourhoods developed and the city was organised.\n\nIn a lecture to launch
  The University of Manchester’s Global Urban Research Centre (GURC) on M
 ay 6\, Dr Hunt will join leading development theorist Professor Caroline
  Moser to explore the relevance of Engels’s thinking in the developing a
 nd developed world.\n\nDrawing on new research from Professor Moser and 
 others at GURC\, Dr Hunt will reveal the importance of the city of Manch
 ester in forming this vision.\n\nHis new book: Engels the Frock-Coated C
 ommunist is also published this month.\n\nHe said: “Friedrich Engels cha
 nged the way we see how cities work in Britain and abroad\, in the ninet
 eenth century and today. And he did so because of his years in Mancheste
 r as a young man in the mid-1840s.\n\n“He was one of the great chronicle
 rs of urban life and described how the streets\, private homes and publi
 c places of Victorian Manchester were the product of class war.\n\n“Like
  few before him\, he appreciated the city’s spatial dynamics as expressi
 ons of social and political power.”\n\nHe added: ”Engels thought he had 
 never seen ‘so systematic a shutting out of the working class from the t
 horoughfares\, so tender a concealment of everything which might affront
  the eye and the nerves of the bourgeois\, as in Manchester.’\n\n“This s
 ense of spatial division along class lines was reflected in numerous Vic
 torian cities – and has arguably come alive again in recent years with u
 rban space tightly controlled by security guards\, property developers a
 nd the police.\n\n”Urban life is still undoubtedly the product of class 
 conflict.”\n\nProfessor Moser\, who is Director of GURC at The Universit
 y of Manchester said: “The same class dynamics identified by Engels in V
 ictorian Manchester are at work in the mega-cities of today right across
  the globe.\n\n“In many developing Latin American cities\, for example\,
  security not schools or water is the biggest priority and increasing cr
 ime\, burglary and gangs - all associated with growing inequality - has 
 again shifted the focus on to class.\n\n“Elites respond by constructing 
 gated communities and electric fences. \n\n“It also explains how a drama
 tically expanding private security system - protecting the wealthy - has
  mushroomed in many cities.\n\n“Indeed\, class is a huge issue in the th
 ird world\, but it is the inequalities endured by the excluded and alien
 ated rather than poverty itself which has produced an exaggerated level 
 of fear.”
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LOCATION:Cordingley Lecture Theatre\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manc
 hester
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