Science and Urban Life

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Science and Urban Life

• Section 161
• pp. 482-487

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Preview Questions

• How did cities cope with their growing
  populations?
• How did new technology transform communications?

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I. Technology and City Life

• Skyscrapers
• Solve space problem
• Steel frame elevator

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I. Technology and City Life

• Electric Transit
• Cities expand
• Suburbs

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I. Technology and City Life

• Engineering and Urban Planning
• Suspension Bridges

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I. Technology and City Life

• Engineering and Urban Planning
• City Planning
• Leisure
• Serenity
• Nature

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I. Technology and City Life

• City Planning
• Daniel Burnham
• White City
• Lakefront Parks

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Wainwright Building in St. Louis 10 stories high
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The Rookery, Chicago, IL (1886), John Wellborn
Root
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Monadnock Building, Chicago, IL (1884-92),
Burnham and Root
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II. New Technologies

• Printing
• Cheap paper
• Books affordable
• Airplanes
• Wright Brothers

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Mark Twain
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II. New Technologies

• George Eastman
• Kodak Company
• Amateur photography
• Photojournalism

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Expanding Public Education

• Section 162
• pp. 488-491

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Preview Questions

• How did education change in the late 1800s?
• What changes were made in higher education?

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I. Expanding Public Education

• Changes in 1900s
• Increase number of schools
• Expand curriculum
• Technical and Managerial programs

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I. Expanding Public Education

• Cultural Reflections in Education
• Whites Affected the most
• African-Americans Most dont attend high school
• Immigrants Americanization programs

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II. Expanding Higher Education

• Adopt modern curriculum
• Language, physical science, psychology
• Professional graduate programs

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II. Expanding Higher Education

• African American Higher Education
• Booker T. Washington
• Founded Tuskegee Institute
• Education would end racism

Washington argued the Black people should
temporarily forego "political power, insistence
on civil rights, and higher education of Negro
youth. They should concentrate all their energies
on industrial education."
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II. Expanding Higher Education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Favored a liberal arts education

"history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because
history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a
tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of
social truths. His singular greatness lay in his
quest for truth about his own people. There were
very few scholars who concerned themselves with
honest study of the black man and he sought to
fill this immense void. The degree to which he
succeeded disclosed the great dimensions of the
man. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.