ABSTRACT
The onset of the Industrial Revolution in Europe coincided with the rise of modern science, especially the so-called Age of Enlightenment. At the turn of the twentieth century when industrialisation was in full swing, manufacturing accounted for over 40 per cent of employment in the so-called developed countries; it was close to 50 per cent in the period during and following the Second World War. The post-industrial economy therefore ought to allow us to be more intelligent about the way we plan and run the cities of the future, and in the same process it will provide other models for schooling. Liverpool; Manchester; Birmingham; the ports of London or New York or Singapore or Shanghai or Hong Kong; Rotterdam; Pittsburgh; Detroit; Chicago all across the world, we are now witnessing the consequences of the boom-and-bust of these industrial cities, and they have characteristics in common.
