1. Growth of Cities

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

3. Skyscrapers

5. Elisha Otis

6. SF (1906)/ Chicago (1871)

7. Urban Sprawl / Growth of suburbs

8. Transportation

10. The Electric City

11. Problems in cities
Housing
Row houses
Dumbbell tenements

12. Water Quality
Filtration
Chlorination

14. Sanitation
Garbage
Horse manure

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

17. Crime

18. Olmstead – The City Beautiful

20. The Emerald Necklace

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

23. New vs. Old Money Today
Dot com billionaires

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

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

30. Change – 1890’s
The Gibson Girl

31. Role of Children
Push for formal education

32. Education
What’s its purpose?

33. Political Machines

34. Mass Media / Yellow Journalism

35. W. R. Hearst

37. Entertainment / Pastimes

38. Amusement Parks

41. Rodeos - Circuses

43. Vaudeville

44. Moving Pictures

45. Spectator Sports

46. Baseball

49. Basketball

51. Football

53. Boxing