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Monday night at 8 00 p. M. Et on cspan2. This week on lectures in history, Carlton Basmajian talks about the northwest ordinance which was an act of congress to organize and governed the newly acquired territory from the ohio river to the mississippi. He describes the 18th Century National planning effort which divided the territory into a grid pattern, and proposed a Transportation Network of roads and canals. He argues this process of development was also applied to the Louisiana Purchase. Thi...

He makes a specific argument about how the United States has been intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. He makes a argument about the intensity of the planning, particularly at the national scale. That is something i will talk about today, specifically, to bring us along this argument. As a rehash of what we talked settlement cities and migration cities, referencing Lewis Mumford from last week, we are saying there is a group of settlement cities along the eastern seaboar...