Ch.2: American Urbanization

Question 1

Four forces of urban growth (19th century)

Answer 1

Increased agricultural growth, low cost transportation, population growth, factory production.

Question 2

Why water and rail so important

Answer 2

Because the low cost of rail, and later rail travel as well building teneded to concentrate around ports and railroad stations – typically within walking distance.

Question 3

Tenements and their issues

Answer 3

Tenement - high density square no sanitary facilities. Because of lack of water treatment, sewer treatment, antibiotics, prevelance of deadly communnicable diseases - congestion took toll in health. Early cities only had population due to in-migration.

Question 4

Earliest forces of suburbanization

Answer 4

Feeling that density of urban living was unhealthful, development of electric trolley car (Street Car Subburbs). Expanded radius of modern city..[more]

Question 5

Streetcar suburbs

Answer 5

Beginning stages of decentralization of city and beginning of suburbization

Question 6

Urban/suburbanization trends of 19th and 20th century

Answer 6

19th c. Tech led to centralization in 20th tech like truck, blah, blah.

Question 7

Decentralizing forces of 20th century

Answer 7

For Population the Car 195. The Truck for Wholesaling, light manufacturing, retailing. Technology [more], phone, immediatly after war pentup demand. Mortage terms avail, employment high so people could afford transportation suburbian living require, Interstate highway system..DEFENSE HIGHWAY ACTT OF 1956.

Question 8

Video: The end of Suburbia

Answer 8

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