This module explores the great problems that affected nineteenth- and twentieth-century cities—disease, deprivation, ‘slum’ housing, crime and haphazard planning—and the reforms that aimed to solve them. It examines new techniques, such as social investigation, ‘underworld’ journalism, slum photography and film-making that shaped understanding of the city as a dangerous place, but also a place of spectacle and pleasure. In so doing, it introduces a range of sources and methods that expand your research skills as you move through the final year.