The Pre-Industrialization Of The Automobile

Urbanization in America was driven by the massive unskilled immigrants who wanted jobs and an opportunity to start their new life in a country known to most as “The land of opportunity”. Urbanization have made many changes to America. The cities have become a place to look for opportunities and a popular place to migrate for work either for the people from the rural area or immigrants from outside the county. Which will then lead to political issues and finally the restriction of immigration itself. The process of Urbanization started in the late 1800’s triggered by the Industrial Revolution and Industrialization. Several factors played in the process one of which is the Gilded Age who had a crucial importance in relation to the shift from

Industrialization helped to change the location of different American lives. Before industrialization, most Americans lived in rural areas or small towns. These areas tended to be more together in social terms. People knew one another and they had relationships that tied them all together. But like any community there are always going to be a few problems among friends. After industrialization, Americans drifted to cities in hopes of finding work to support family. Instead of living in small communities where everyone knew one another, they came to live in large, detached cities (Backer,

Thomas Jefferson, America’s third president, dreamed of a nation of small farmers living off the land and believed large cities to be destructive “to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.” However, as the nation grew into the most powerful in the world, its cities followed suit. They became the social, economic, and political centers of their respective areas. Cities such as Boston, New York, and San Francisco became the industrial and marketing strongholds of the country. However, by the 1950s, the American landscape was transformed yet again with the arrival of the new frontier, Suburbia. Americans migrated from the dirty, crowded, and

Karl Benz invented the first automobile in 1866; it has changed the world in how we commute every day. From riding in carriages to now cutting our time travel whether it is riding a bus or our on car. It has become more of a necessity in today's world to have a car because its something that we choose to have in our daily life that it is a choice that is high on the priority list to own. As to wealthier people the type of car you drive puts in a different class. Where some get the choice of car that they want others have a certain budget on what to look for. The way an automobile symbolizes today, changed in society, and how a car has become a collection.

In the 1950’s, “the standard consumer package” consisted of a home, television set, and car. Eighty percent of American families possessed at least one car, and fourteen percent had two or more. Almost all of the cars sold were mass-produced in the United States. To stimulate further purchases the cars were fabricated to go out of style within a year or two. The highest ranks of corporate America were oil companies and auto manufactures. Detroit was recognized for its vast auto factories. The automobile industry guaranteed the region’s affluence because of its necessity for rubber, steel, and other products. The car and interstate highway system made it possible for Americans to travel long distances. The interstate highway system stimulated

“You can have any color as long as it’s black”. This was an iconic quote from Henry Ford about his creation of the Model T. Although the Model T was not the first car created, it revolutionized all of America. The Model T was marketed to the middle class, it increased the productivity of the work force as well as the economy, and its design made it the most reliable car of its time. I would like to address that the dream of owning a car in the early 19th century, became a reality for the middle class. There were numerous cars before the creation of the Model T, but only the rich could afford them.

Owning a car can be a burden on an owner; they are very expensive to purchase, and require additional money for insurance, gas, and maintenance for the vehicle. Furthermore, encouraging people to bike and walk to nearby destinations rather than drive there could help resolve America’s obesity epidemic. In What Is the Total Cost of Owning a Car, the author provides information relating to various, auxiliary car expenses that can add up to appalling amounts. She says, “For an average vehicle that’s driven 15,000 miles a year, all costs of ownership added up to $8,698 a year, according to AAA’s 2015 Your Driving Costs study. That’s about $725 a month” (Lee). This means that it costs drivers a yearly average of nearly $9,000 to own and operate a car, let alone purchase one. By restricting the use of cars, people could save these expenses and put that money towards travelling, a new home, or other luxuries. On top of expenses, driving cars promotes unhealthy habits and contributes to problems for overweight Americans. In Mapping the Link Between Obesity and Car Driving, the author describes the correlation between cars and obesity, and how bikes can help resolve the crisis. She writes, “It stands to reason that the less you bike or walk, the more you drive. And the more you drive, the less exercise you get from the aforementioned activities” (Schwartz). The author also provides maps that illustrate links between areas with high percentages of obese adults and high percentages of people who drive to work. These two pieces of evidence demonstrate how slowly incorporating bikes instead of cars (for short trips) into a person’s life can have incredible health benefits. By restricting cars, people would be encouraged to utilize these alternate, healthy forms of transportation and ultimately enhance their lives. Notwithstanding, some people feel banning cars would make long distance

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced an urban revolution unparalleled in world history up to that point in time. As factories, mines, and mills sprouted out across the map, cities grew up around them. The late nineteenth century, declared an economist in 1889, was “not only the age of cities, but the age of great cities.” Between 1860 and 1910, the urban population grew from 6 million to 44 million. The United States was rapidly losing its rural roots. By 1920, more than half of the population lived in urban areas. The rise of big cities during the nineteenth century created a distinctive urban culture. People from different

Historian Clay McShane explained, “American urbanites made a decision to destroy the living environments of nineteenth-century neighborhoods by converting their gathering places into traffic jams, their playgrounds into motorways, and their shopping places into elongated parking lots”. This

The era of urbanization that started in 1920, and turned the nation into a suburban nation. This traditional urbanism has come to an end whit tendency to live in the city center in a walk able city, and that means more parks and public squares, better air quality and less noise, removing excessive car use and less parking. The downtown of the cities continued to grow population and with an economic base that is increasingly seen as a specialized process. The cities today are presented as huge masses of physical concrete, the air is no longer safe to respire and sometimes the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking, the number of travelers who spend hours sitting in congested streets and highways increases frustration levels as much as pollution, long and

The Emergence of Urban America: The United States experienced urban transformation o Age of great cities, population boom more than half lived in urban areas by 1920. Distinctive urban culture created by rise of big cities. Heterogeneous population in cities. The prospect of Jobs, wealth, excitement had encouraged many to move into the big cities. New social problems had risen. Poverty, political corruption, quality of life issues. Also the increasing prevalence of segregation

The automobile has reigned supreme as the top transportational vehicle in America for over a century. It provides people with a quick and simple way to get where they are going. However, many people believe that the automobile should be dethroned. This is because the effects of cars are starting to overpower the benefits. But, automobiles are a large part of the American lifestyle. Cars were and still are a huge part of the economy, cars are the only option for many Americans, and cars are the fastest and easiest ways to reach one’s destination. For many Americans, taking away their car would be like taking their freedom along with it.

“Our generation grew up knowing all about the effects on the environment that cars can have, so we’ve grown up with an attitude of wanting to do our part for the earth – something that we can easily do with public transit and not with cars.” (Millennials and Mobility. p34) The role of public transportation from being a social service provided to persons who have limited transportation options to being the transportation mode of choice. With this come high expectation that public transportation will transform to meet the lifestyle needs of the riding public including access to information and options. “We are well-connected when it comes to searching and finding information we need to plan our transportation ahead of time.” (Millennials and Mobility.

Since the development of the steam engine people had been interested in creating self-powered vehicles, this manifested during the industrial revolution as the train. However, as time went on people became interested in creating a vehicle that wasn’t confined to tracks. The earliest attempts were moderately successful but served little practical purpose. Automobiles first began to truly spread with the invention of the electric motor which created cheaper, more powerful, and safer automobiles. Still the automobile still had numerous problems and were mainly in the hands of the rich. It was the development of the internal combustion engine and the assembly line that was truly able to create a practical vehicle that could be used by all and

In the beginning, man’s only form of transportation was his own feet. Later, to comfort his journey on foot, was the invention of footwear. Through envy of the speed of other animals he would learn to tame these animals. People who live in the desert ride atop camels. The people who live in the frigid climates travel by dogs. Some people from places like India ride elephants. But the must widely used form of transportation by animal power was by horse. Man would soon develop boats and ships to travel long distances over water and time would flow like the rivers and hundreds of years later, in the late 1700s steam power became the new craze. Steam power got the wheels turning amongst many inventors who