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The Development and Challenges of Cities
Chapter 15 & Chapter 16
Urban Opportunities The technological boom in the 19th
century contributed to the growing industrial strength of the United States.
The result was rapid urbanization, or growth of cities, mostly in regions of the Northeast and Midwest.
Skyscrapers Electric Transit Engineering &
Urban Planning
The invention of elevators and the development of internal steel skeletons to bear the weight of buildings.
The skyscraper became America’s greatest contribution to architecture.
Solved the problem of how to deal with limited and expensive space.
Skyscrapers Electric Transit Engineering &
Urban Planning
The invention of elevators and the development of internal steel skeletons to bear the weight of buildings.
The skyscraper became America’s greatest contribution to architecture.
Solved the problem of how to deal with limited and expensive space.
Before the Civil War, horses had dawn the earliest streetcars over iron rails embedded in city streets.
In the 1870s and 1880s, underground moving cables, powered streetcar line – Electricity however, transformed Urban Transportation.
New railroad lines also fed the growth of suburbs.
Skyscrapers Electric Transit Engineering &
Urban Planning
The invention of elevators and the development of internal steel skeletons to bear the weight of buildings.
The skyscraper became America’s greatest contribution to architecture.
Solved the problem of how to deal with limited and expensive space.
Before the Civil War, horses had dawn the earliest streetcars over iron rails embedded in city streets.
In the 1870s and 1880s, underground moving cables, powered streetcar line – Electricity however, transformed Urban Transportation.
New railroad lines also fed the growth of suburbs.
Recreational Areas
“Greensward” which was selected to become Central Park.
The finished park featured, boating and tennis facilities, a zoo, and bicycle paths.
New Technologies Developed
A Revolution of Printing
Airplanes
Photography Explosion
Most immigrants became city dwellers
because cities were the cheapest and most
convenient places to live.
The Americanization Movement was designed to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures
into the dominate culture.
However many immigrants did not want
to abandon their culture.
Overcrowding soon became a problem.
Urban Problems Walk around the room to
investigate documents and pictures to understand the
challenges that the people of the cities faced.
Take your note sheet with you to chart your discoveries!
Housing
Jacob Riis photographed this poor family in their tenement apartment.
Transportation
Water
Sanitation
Crime As populatio
ns of cities
increased, pickpocke
ts and thieves
flourished.
Although, NYC organized the first full time, salaried police force in 1844, it and most other city law
enforcement until were too small to have an impact on crime.
The limited water supply in many cities contributed to the spread of fires. Most cities were paced with
wooden dwellings which were like kindling waiting to be ignited. The use of candles and kerosene heaters
also posed a fire hazard.
Homework: Read Chapter 16 Section 4
and Complete the
Graphic Organizer!
Modern Mass Culture
Emerges
Leisure
Culture
