What does this picture tell you about how Oklahoma City was a PLANNED CITY?
Urbanization & Industrialization Game This game will get faster as we go along. Keep up, and draw your items QUICKLY. It doesn’t have to be perfect.
This is your Key House Church School Tenement (Apartment) Etc… Each year, you will add/destroy something to the city. Be ready… KEEP UP!!!!
To start with… Draw a River across the Page- East to West 2 Road- one North-South with a wooden bridge over river, and one East-West (neither must be straight)
To start with… 10 houses 1 church 1 cemetery 1 store 1 pub 1 coalmine
1745 Canal (parallel to the river) 1 nice house for yourself anywhere on the map
1750 Add 5 houses (total of 15)
1760 Area 3x3 inches (The Commons) 5 houses 1 more nice house
1773 1 Factory (no smoke) 5 houses for workers (total = 25)
1774 15 houses 1 church 1 pub 1 store Additional roads (if you want) 1 additional bridge
1778 5 factories (no smoke) 5 houses
1780 5 tenements
1781 1 store 1 pub 1 church 1 school
1782 5 more pubs DESTROY 5 houses Add 4 tenements
1783 2 special homes 1 factory 15 houses for managers
1785 10 factories with smoke Add smoke to all other factories 1 NICER house 5 houses 1 tenement
1800 1 coal mine 1 iron bridge to replace old wooden one 5 houses
1815 1 cemetery
1820 1 Railroad Connecting ALL FACTORIES with ALL COAL MINES- One continuous track- you may build railroad bridges Add 5 houses for Railroad workers
1827 1 jail 2 pubs 2 tenements
1838 2 hospitals 1 more cemetery
1840 1 railroad line running east-west 5 houses 1 tenements
1842 1 theatre 1 museum 2 private schools for upper class students (School marked with a “P”) 1 nice house
1845 1 cemetery 1 jail 1 hospital
1850 20 houses (Total 95) 3 nice houses 5 tenements 2 stores 1 church 5 factories 1 pub
What now? Does your town look anything like the Oklahoma City picture?
This process of people flocking to the cities to live and work is called Urbanization. Do you think the effects of urbanization were overall good or bad? Why?