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Challenges facing America’s urban areas

Challenges facing America’s urban areas. By: Molly Sprister and Kasey Milbach Hour: 3. Housing. Rent in the central city, but rooms were cramped “Gentrification” was to help renovate bad neighborhoods which increased the homeless population Housing projects turned in to slums

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Challenges facing America’s urban areas

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  1. Challenges facing America’s urban areas By: Molly Sprister and Kasey Milbach Hour: 3

  2. Housing • Rent in the central city, but rooms were cramped • “Gentrification” was to help renovate bad neighborhoods which increased the homeless population • Housing projects turned in to slums • Buy a house on the outskirts of town • Would face transportation problems

  3. Transportation and social problems • Cities struggled to repair old transit systems • Had to build new ones to meet the demands of expanding populations • Increase of high school dropouts • Segregation • Job loses

  4. Crime and fire • Increase in violence, drug abuse/sales • As cities grew so did pickpockets, and thieves • Limited H20 supply • Spread of fires • Solution: introduction of automatic fire sprinklers in 1874 and replaced wood with brick, stone and concrete

  5. Water and sanitation • Horse manure piled on streets, sewage flowed out of open gutters • Factories led air pollution (smoke) • People threw garbage onto the streets • Solution: scavengers were hired to sweep the streets, collect garbage, clean outhouses • Had to supply safe drinking water • Solution: filtration was introduced in the 1870’s

  6. Sources • Google.com/images • http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_kornblum_socprob_11/12/3111/796638.cw/index.html • Danzer, Gerald A., et al. The Americans. Boston, MA: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.

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