The Industrial City

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The Industrial City

• Pros and Cons of Urban Living in the Early 20th
  Century

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The Rise of Cities
What is this chart telling us?
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The Pros of City Life

• Jobs
• Manufacturing jobs, though often dirty and
  dangerous pay much more than farm work
• Social Networks
• Important for recent immigrants
• Support in finding work, housing

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The Pros of City Life

• Freedom
• New ways of thinking and exploring identity
• Amusements
• Nickelodeons
• Vaudeville
• Coney Island

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Coney Island
Why were city freedoms and amusements so
appealing?
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The Cons of City Life

• Crowding
• Too many people in a small area
• Poverty
• Not many resources for those not able to work
• Many poor exploited

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The Cons of City Life

• Disease
• Typhoid
• Flu Epidemic of 1918
• Mental Depression

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Jacob Riis

• Journalist
• New York
• Late 19th Century
• Reformer
• How the Other half Lives (1890)
• Environment leads to misery

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If environment leads to misery, whats to be done?
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The Tenement

• Crowded
• Many families per apartment
• Dark
• Very few windows
• Infested
• Rats
• Roaches

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Changing Geography of Cities

• Pre-Industrial
• Rich live in center, poor on periphery
• Neighborhoods more mixed
• Industrial City
• Rich live on periphery
• Streetcar suburbs
• Ethnic enclaves - ghettoes