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Progressive Era: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Progressive Era: THE AGE OF THE CITY. America begins life as an agrarian society but rapidly begins to urbanize. Topics. Urbanization Population Growth Immigration and Migrations The Ethnic City Urban Landscape 1) Public Space 2) Housing Problems of Urban Life

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Progressive Era: THE AGE OF THE CITY

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  1. Progressive Era:THE AGE OF THE CITY America begins life as an agrariansociety but rapidly begins to urbanize.

  2. Topics • Urbanization • Population Growth • Immigration and Migrations • The Ethnic City • Urban Landscape 1) Public Space 2) Housing • Problems of Urban Life • Political Machines • Mass Consumption • Leisure • Culture in the City

  3. The Lure of the City:page 500 • “We cannot all live in cities. Yet nearly all seemed determined to do so.” Horace Greely • More and better- paying jobs • Immigrants • Better transportation • Declining farm regions of east West, cities of midwest and east

  4. Population Growth

  5. Total Immigration

  6. Sources of Immigration from Europe 1860 - 1900

  7. African-American Migration

  8. The Ethnic City:Milwaukee, WI 1850 - 1890

  9. Immigrants in the City • Benefits of ethnic neighborhoods • Those who arrived with a skill did better than those who did not • Strength of ethnic ties vs. assimilation • African – Americans, Asians and Mexicans suffered the most discrimination • Changing Gender Patterns

  10. The Urban Landscape: A study in contrasts Jacob Riis photo Washington Square North, 1890

  11. The Urban Landscape:Public Space • Reformers, planners and architects call for more ordered vision of the city • City Planning: parks, libraries, museums

  12. Need for Urban Planning becomes evident as well

  13. The Urban Landscape 1850’s: Central Park: Olmstead and Vaux

  14. Housing the Well -to -do • Due to cheap labor, easy access to tools more people are able to buy homes • Beacon Hill, Nob Hill, Society Hill, Fifth Ave

  15. Housing Workers and the Poor: Tenements

  16. How the Other Half Lives(1890):Jacob Riis documents slum life

  17. The Urban Landscape:Urban Transportation

  18. The Urban Landscape: Population changes with transportation

  19. The Urban Landscape: Cities grow upward as well as outward • Steel girder construction • Louis Sullivan • Frank Lloyd Wright will later apply techniques to shorter buildings

  20. Problems of Urban Life • Fires • Disease –typhoid, cholera due to poor sanitation • Air pollution • Poverty • High crime rates

  21. Great Chicago Fire 1871: supposedly started by “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” • Whole midwest was very dry • Streets were made of wood which helped fire spread • 4 miles long area burned

  22. The Aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire

  23. The Legend

  24. Disease • Sanitation standards were low • Raw sewage in the streets contaminated the water • Sewer systems not complete until into the 20th century.

  25. Urban Poverty • Private and public agencies offered limited relief, thinking it would cause dependence • Salvation Army • Idea of self-improvement limited attention to sources of poverty

  26. Fear of the City/Crime and Violence • High crime rates • Alienating • Anonymous • Limited connection with work • Sister Carrie

  27. The Political Machine and the Boss • Became a source of assistance for new immigrants, those who needed jobs and those in trouble with the law- often in return for votes. • Would give supporters government jobs

  28. Political Machines

  29. The Rise of Mass Consumption • Coincides with the rise of the middle class = demand for products • Chain stores, mail order products • Woolworth • The A & P • Goods no longer being made at home, but instead purchased in the consumer economy

  30. Leisure: Thanks to the 8 hour workday

  31. Leisure : Sports: Football:originated in universities

  32. Baseball: The American National Game • Baseball clubs • 1903: First modern World Series. Red Sox beat the Pittsburg Pirates • Working class game

  33. Mass communication • Newspapers become more important • American journalism becomes a profession

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