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Growth of Cities

Early factories – rural areas, near rivers New factories – steam power and RR allow them to be built in cities

Skyscrapers

Elisha Otis

SF (1906)/ Chicago (1871)

Urban Sprawl / Growth of suburbs

Transportation

The Electric City

Problems in cities Housing Row houses Dumbbell tenements

Water Quality Filtration Chlorination

Sanitation Garbage Horse manure

Fire Chicago Fire – 1871 300 dead - 100,000 homeless Mrs. O’Leary’s cow??

Crime

Olmstead – The City Beautiful

The Emerald Necklace

The Urban Elite NY attracts Millionaires “New” vs. “old” money Socialites The “Four-hundred” The Social Register

New vs. Old Money Today Dot com billionaires

High Culture Boston Museum of Fine Arts Chicago Museum of Art BSO Carnegie – Libraries

Middle Class Male / female roles Domesticity Views on female sexuality Anthony Comstock “Society for the Suppression of Vice” Victorian Era

Change – 1890’s The Gibson Girl

Role of Children Push for formal education

Education What’s its purpose?

Political Machines

Mass Media / Yellow Journalism

W. R. Hearst

Entertainment / Pastimes

Amusement Parks

Rodeos - Circuses

Vaudeville

Moving Pictures

Spectator Sports

Baseball

Basketball

Football

Boxing