Urbanization In The 1800s

Through a multitude of significant changes physically, conceptually, economically, and more, the societal reformation of cities in the Progressive Era had set themselves as the foundations of American civilization. The juxtaposition between the rich and poor statuses in these urban areas show the drastic separation within developing cities. Through this division caused a wide variety of living conditions, the majority of which held the overcrowded sections of cities where the population mostly stayed while the higher end communities had more luxurious lives. Through this success of entrepreneurship and economic growth from all aspects in cities, the entire landscape, both physically through innovative architecture and the perspectives outside rural and suburban areas had on them, had transformed for the better in these areas.

In American industrial cities, late 1800s, Poor neighborhood were not the best place to live. With poor living conditions, poor sanitation and crowded housing, many epidemics of infectious disease spread into the poor population and touched even the wealthy class. Cities such as New York were crowded and workers were living in tenements, which were often cramped, poorly lit and poorly aerated. Moreover, these tenements lacked of adequate plumbing, therefore waste was flooding in the public streets. Streets was crowded of waste and garbage. Population was poorly nourished and has a poor life hygiene like water pollution and poisoned food and milk. Accordingly, infectious disease was the common death reason. Big cities had known outbreaks of

After the Civil War the United States became a much more industrialized society. Between 1865 in 1920 industrialization and proved American life in many ways. However industrialization also created problems for American society. This paper will introduce my previously crafted thesis statement where I stated my opinion on how industrialization after the Civil War influenced US society, economy, and politics.

Bobby Lefebre says, “Watching everything I love about my neighborhood slowly walk into a mere memory is disheartening. It seems like every day there is a new institution, business, or mural being cleared away to make room for the new.” This quote not only helps you understand just how upsetting gentrification is to people who were rooted in these areas, but also how the original atmosphere is no longer apart of the neighborhood. These Chicanos, are not saying that people of other races or backgrounds cannot live in these neighborhoods as well, they just want it to be the same tight knit group of people who are able to help each other out and provide information to people of the same background. The idea of a tight knit community plays an important role in preservation and is imperative to these individual’s survival. Bobby Lefebre also writes, “Let’s honor our past by ensuring Northside communities of all backgrounds are not erased. Let’s work together to preserve our diverse traditions and cultural artifacts; even if preservation means creating things anew.” Even though gentrification is happening in multiple neighborhoods, there is still ideas for how to keep the original feel and the historical value that people who have lived in the area for a long time would benefit from and help give peace of mind, with the changes that are happening in their neighborhood. The ongoing stories of these people can remain in the neighborhood and will grow with them as well as the growing communities. Jolie Diepenhorst comments at the end of Bobby Lefebre’s article and her comment is another voice for how truly upsetting gentrification is to people and the history of the area. She says, “This is a beautifully written piece that illustrates everything that is

Urbanization of the United States in Late 1800s In the late 1800s, the United States experienced rapid urbanization, or growth, due to the massive amounts of immigrants from all over the world, who came over to America in search for work in the recent technological boom. Despite the hardships of the journey, they came, which strengthened the United States. With the massive amounts of immigrants, it led to many problems including lack of sanitation in large cities, transportation problems, housing predicaments, large fires which devastated thousands, crime, and lack of clean water in bulk for the public. To fix these problems, people such as Jane Addams started to find solutions to the multiple problems that came with urbanization, and some solutions by the government included the Social Gospel movement and the establishment of settlement houses.

After the Civil War, the United States went through a period of rapid industrialization which affected the nation dramatically. Industrial growth, the spread of railroads, the rise of big businesses, and the appearance of labor unions during these decades created a modern industrial economy, and American workers and farmers faced new challenges in adapting to these changes.

of new factories in the New York metropolitan region was invested in suburban areas beyond the boundaries of New York City.” (Teaford 109) Taking all the business away from the cities, also gained suburban towns a lot of money. All the money that the towns gained the city lost.

South Philadelphia is an urban community with a plethora of diverse populations within one geographic location. According to The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia, (2015) South Philadelphia extends from “South Street to the I-76 expressway and from the Delaware to the Schuylkill Rivers”. South Philadelphia includes the zip codes of 19145, 19146, 19147, and 19148, but for this analysis I will focus solely on 19145. Within, the community of South Philadelphia an array of smaller communities exists, where residents share similar characteristics such as culture, beliefs, racial identity or interests. Communities where individuals share more than just their geographic location are non geographical communities and therefore South Philadelphia is a community based on both geographic vicinity and a community based on the common ideas, interest and a since of belonging residents share.

The transformation of the American economy came about in the nineteenth-century. This change arose with the emergence of tremendous industrial enterprises created by Rockefeller, Carnegie, and many others. The evolution of new technology boosted manufacturing output, although it also altered the status of industrial workers. " New machines produced more goods in less time and required mostly low-skilled labor to operate" (Keene, 485).

The Industrial Revolution was a movement which contributed to significant progress in America which began in the later 1700’s throughout the later 1800’s. During the industrial revolution, dramatic economic and cultural shifts took place. The discovery of the mineral wealth, technological advancements, and the construction of a nationwide railway changed the transportation industry as well as its labor force. These changes ushered in an intense need for manufacturing factories, laborers, and resources. With America needing a broader network of skilled and unskilled laborers, this attracted migrant populations from all corners of the globe. Many fled their own countries seeking better opportunities such as employment, education, political and religious freedom, and ownership of property, in exchange for jobs with decent wages. Thus, the widespread demand in the labor force played a key role in America’s financial stability and uprising. While the industrial revolution had made transformational progress towards technological, scientific, and cultural advancements; there were unanticipated consequences which had negatively impacted various social and economic strata.

Throughout history, there have been dozens of kinds of civilizations. In said civilizations, there are subsets of districts in which only certain sets of people reside. Between World War I and now, many changes in these areas have occurred that we can observe. Whether it be a strong economy, rapid postwar growth, change in class, or simply new architectural designs for cities, there are several factors that contributed to the rise of what we now know as suburbia.

Between natural disasters such as extreme winter storms, earthquakes, and mega-fires, people are beginning to pay more attention to how they interact and impact their surrounding environment. Global warming, a substantial factor in causing the aforementioned, is making all human contact with the earth much more influential. In addition, as cities become more populated there is an increasing expansion from urban centers as well as a large migration away from them all together a new term has been created: wildland-urban interference, or WUI. These areas are defined as places where humans come into contact or invade natural areas and consequently pose a threat to either themselves or the ecosystem. And while WUI may not seem like an urban issue

In Jane Jacobs’s acclaimed The Life and Death of Great American Cities, she intricately articulates urban blight and the ills of metropolitan society by addressing several binaries throughout the course of the text. One of the more culturally significant binaries that Jacobs relies on in her narrative is the effectively paradoxical relationship between diversity and homogeneity in urban environments at the time. In particular, beginning in Chapter 12 throughout Chapter 13, Jacobs is concerned greatly with debunking widely held misconceptions about urban diversity.

The dominant group sets out to create their ideal world, which also forces one to understand community as the “imagined world” of the powerful, how it was created, “and how it changed over time” (269). That leads one to see “the study of community as a socio-cultural process” of creation and interaction (267). Consequently, the social interaction between the powerful group and the weaker ones becomes just as important as the interaction within the dominant group. In this definition of community, Los Angeles becomes a case study for the creation of urban communities in the United States, a study that starts with the Anglo immigration near the turn of the 20th century.

write here..write here..When I think about this semester as an urban fellow and what I have learned. I think about asset mapping, the difference between faith based and faith rooted organizations and making generalized disparaging assumptions about particular groups of people. Most of all I think about the lingering question that has had me bewildered since the first day of class. ‘What is Urban?’ I thought that I had a monopoly on the characterization of urban. Especially, considering that I was born and raised in an impoverished inner city neighborhood all of my life. My assumptions were that urban was a way of saying primarily black neighborhoods. This essay seeks to highlight a few thoughts and what I have learned this semester in the Urban Fellows class.