Urbanization Demographics, Environment, Politics
Structural Steel Structural Steel changed the urban environment with bridges and sky- scrapers
Brooklyn Bridge
‘Skyscraper’
“Chicago School” Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demanded a new city to be built Soaring population descended on Chicago “Chicago School” a small group of professional architects designing the new, tall, buildings
Connecticut Mill
Chicago home
San Jose 1883, Third and Santa Clara streets Odd Fellows Building
Jacob Riis School Cities, comprehensive free public school systems and public libraries
Public works Street paving, trolley tracks, underground subway lines
Trolley, North First in San Jose
Sewers and Water mains Flush toilet, bathtubs, and lavatories in new apartments— because of improvements in city sewers and water mains.
Bosses William Marcy Tweed or “Boss Tweed” of New York Bribery and Graft to control New York politics
Nast cartoon
Tammany Hall
Lincoln Steffens
2009