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Challenges of Urbanization

Challenges of Urbanization. Today’s Vocab.!. Urban : city area Urbanization : the growth of cities Assimilate : when a small group (minority) adopts the beliefs & ways of life of the dominant culture Transit : transportation system (subway, bus, trolley, train, etc.) Sewage : human waste.

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Challenges of Urbanization

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  1. Challenges of Urbanization

  2. Today’s Vocab.! • Urban: city area • Urbanization: the growth of cities • Assimilate: when a small group (minority) adopts the beliefs & ways of life of the dominant culture • Transit: transportation system (subway, bus, trolley, train, etc.) • Sewage: human waste

  3. Urbanization: Growth of Cities • Most immigrants move into city areas • Cheapest and convenient • Take unskilled labor jobs in factories Mulberry St., New York

  4. Americanization Movement • ethnic communities (enclaves) form • New immigrants are able to practice their customs, religion, & language. • become overcrowded • Solution: Americanization • Plan to assimilate people into the dominant “American” culture • Teach English, American history & Gov’t, cooking & social customs

  5. Housing Problems: Where to Stay? • Tenements: when two or three families occupy a formerly single-family house. • Often overcrowded and unsanitary • Poor ventilation and plumbing

  6. Cities Face Problems • Mass Transit: how people move around the city • Water: no sewage system = bacteria in water = people get sick and die! • Sanitation: no trash pick up, no street sweeping • Protection: no police or fire departments

  7. Great Chicago Fire, 1871: • Fire burned over 24 hours • 300 pple died • 100,000 pple left homeless • 3 sq. mi. + burned • $200 mill. property damage • 17, 500 buildings destroyed • San Francisco Earthquake, 1906 • Quake lasted 28 seconds • Fire burned for 4 days • 1,000 pple died • 200,000 pple left homeless • 5 sq. mi. burned • $500 mill. property damage • 28,000 buildings destroyed

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