urbanization demographics, environment, politics
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Urbanization
Demographics, Environment, Politics
Structural Steel
• Structural Steel changed the urban environment with bridges and sky-scrapers
Brooklyn Bridge
‘Skyscraper’
“Chicago School”
• Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demanded a new city to be built
• Soaring population descended on Chicago
• “Chicago School” a small group of professional architects designing the new, tall, buildings
Connecticut Mill
Chicago home
San Jose
• 1883, Third and Santa Clara streets
• Odd Fellows Building
Jacob Riis School
• Cities, comprehensive free public school systems and public libraries
Public works
• Street paving, trolley tracks, underground subway lines
Trolley, North First in San Jose
Sewers and Water mains
• Flush toilet, bathtubs, and lavatories in new apartments—because of improvements in city sewers and water mains.
Bosses
• William Marcy Tweed or “Boss Tweed” of New York
• Bribery and Graft to control New York politics
Nast cartoon
Tammany Hall
Tammany Hall
Lincoln Steffens
2009