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City Flashcards

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What is first nature? Second nature?

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The original or native; the replacement

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Where were cities built?

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Along water

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What is a Megalopolis?

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Everyone lives in the city

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How would Turner feel about urbanization?

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He wouldn’t like it because we need a frontier but it’s a natural process

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What is urbanization?

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Growth of cities

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What was a disadvantage to increasing population?

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It creates a drainage and sanitation problem

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What impacts cities?

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Population and physical geography

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How were cities developed?

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As a regional hub based on a symbiotic relationship

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Ghettoes

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Neighborhood of one ethnic group or race

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Chain immigration

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One family member from a foreign country moves to America and establishes a life so the rest of the family can move (lays the ground work)

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The industrial revolution

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Raw materials are brought to one stop then massed produced (attracts workers)

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Changes in agriculture

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McCormick develops reaper so farms are larger with less help

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The multiplier effect

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Jobs create jobs

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Industrial jobs

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Core of jobs

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Edward Bellamy’s book-looking Backwards

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He created a utopian city were the government rules so there is no freedom

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Sweatshops

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Poor working conditions

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Piece work

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Paid by the piece (how much produced)

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Child labor

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Unconstitutional to restrict

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Political machines

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The machine boss hands out jobs and things to gt votes

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Boodle and kickbacks

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A machine boss offers a bribe (money or jobs) to accomplish personal goals (L train) and place hand-picked workers (voters) for the job

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Irish

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The most hated but the most powerful because they were the first to settle and spoke English readily

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Tenements

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Cheaply built apartments

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Slum landlord

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Buy tenements, they rent them out a lot and ignores health and safety laws

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Walking city

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Industries were next to workers homes

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What were people’s only safety net

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Machine bosses

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Sleeping porches

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People slept in fresh air to help cure terberculous

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Environmental determinism

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Improve people by improving their surroundings

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The City Beautiful Movement

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Opened by the Chicago fire, Daniel Burnham planned how to build the city so it’s more functional
“White Man’s Burden” the rich built it without discussing it with the masses first

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Turner’s environmental determinism

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If you move to the west then you become savage then back to civilized so you come up, but cities won’t let you come ip

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Chicago World Fair

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A model for what cities should be

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Double decker street

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(Wicker Av.) people travel on top and cars on the bottom

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Blouvards

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Wide, tree lined streets with trains below

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What was culture street

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Michigan Av.

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Open spaces

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Parks were built to replace the frontier

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Temperance towns

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A town that doesn’t allow alcohol (Harvey)

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Company Towns

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A town built out of the city for the workers (Gary) ex. Pullman

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Social engineer

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Design a community

37
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Paternalist

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Treating others like children

38
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Pullman’s environmental determinism for his train cars

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If there nice enough then people will act properly

39
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Progressivism /examples

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Government solves problems-a political reform movement
Gov. Regulations
Zoning-one part of the city separated from another
Primary elections-running against people in same party (limit political boss)
Civil service test-take a test to work in gov. job

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Settlement house movement

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Encouraged Immigrants to teach classes about their culture

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Legislation

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Pure food and drug act
Gov’t expects meat
Controls child labor

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Muckraking

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Investigative reports exposed flaws and harmful conditions which helped produce legislation

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How does Park Forest contrast with cities?

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It will be orderly and planned instead of jumbled and confused

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How do developers describe Park Forest

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A better life

45
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What values are reflected in the way that Park Forest was planned

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Child friendly, community based, country-like feel, automobile

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What are accusations made by The Organized Man

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Everyone is conforming and losing individuality

47
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How does Park Forest defended themselves

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They run the city

48
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Who was Park forest built for

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Veterans

49
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Open House

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We can live together in integrated community

50
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Panic selling

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Band the idea of putting up “ For Sale” signs in front lawn so others don’t panic and all try to sell at once

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What do the songs “Little boxes” and “Suburbs” say about suburbs

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That everyone is the same

52
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Patronage

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Gives jobs to friends

53
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Biological necessity

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(Human-place) general wilderness can heal the touched parts (heart)

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Spiritual necessity

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(Physical-place) a place were God’s creation is perfect

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“Cores” human environment interaction

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Bass argues for an agrarian model to use for Yaak (alternative: cut down sick and dying trees)
Large timber industry argues for industrial model (quantity)

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“Cores” value added work

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Make furniture factory

57
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“City of Ships” who makes up the population

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Made up from all races and they all contribute

58
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How is Annie Dillion’s view compare to Whitman’s on the city make up

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Made up of many races but they don’t help each other

59
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How does the city shape its occupants

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It makes them proud, passionate, strong (has a good effect)

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In The House On Mango Street what are the push and pull factors of moving the family

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Push:bad living conditions (no water)
Pull:thought for a real house

61
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Does Whitman seem more agrarian or industrial?

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Industrial because he’s talking about how great the city is built

62
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How does Andrew Carnegie reveal himself as being equal

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He’s sarcastic toward an important figure by saying that Negros are being let into heaven

63
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How is Carnegie hypocritical about equal rights

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He treats his workers badly

64
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How is Carnegie living by his Gospel of Wealth ironic

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Gives all his money away to many organizations but he made all that money through poor workers

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