Urban Planning During Immigration Boom You’ll need on your desk: 1)Graph paper 2)Eraser 3)Pencil 4)Your Collage From Yesterday Unless You Turned It In
To Begin Your City, You Will Need the Following: Two Factories - 4x4 Two Apartments - 8x4 20 Houses - 1x1 1 Police Station - 4x4 One Fire Hall - 6x6 One City Hall - 8x4 Two Schools - 4x4 Unlimited Parks Photograph from the collection of the Fenton History Center, Jamestown, NY
Your City is Growing! Add the Following 50 Houses - 1x1 (70 total) 3 Apartments - 8x4 (5 total) 1 School - 4x4 (3 total)
Immigrants are Racing to the United States - Add: 80 Houses (150 total) 2 Apartments (7 total) 2 Schools (5 total) Photograph from the collection of the Fenton History Center, Jamestown, NY
New Technologies, New Citizens - Add: 60 Houses (210 total) 2 Apartments (9 total) 1 School (6 total) 2 Factories (4 total)
New Technologies The City has decided to provide running water in every tenement. This necessitates more pipe work and sewers in the apartment buildings. Make all apartments 9x4 or 8x5.
New Technologies Horseless carriages (automobiles) are replacing horse and buggies. This requires wider roads. All roads must be made to be at least two blocks wide
Writing Prompt You have just experienced what it was like to be a city planner in the late 1800s and early 1900s as immigration was exploding. 1) Please now detail the problems you personally faced when confronting expanding population in your city. Where you are to overcome the issues? Why or why not? 2) Ultimately, what did you learn from today’s lesson.