1. The Urban Game

2. Rules of the Story Rules:
There is NO talking while I am reading the story.
You will be creating a city based on this story
The story will be divided into different scenes
Each scene will be read only once
Listen carefully
At the end of each scene, you will be given instructions on what you need to add to your village/city
The pace will quicken as the story progresses
Try not to fall behind

3. and A LOT of trees all over the poster paper.
The year is 1700 and the nation is England. The scene begins in a rural village. 
Draw a river across your paper connecting east to west. The river should be about an inch wide.
Draw a wooden bridge across the river, 4 roads originating from each direction, 10 houses, a church, a cemetery, a store, a pub, a coal mine,
and A LOT of trees all over the poster paper.

4. It is 1700 in England
Life here in village England is similar to other villages across Europe in the 18th century. Change traditionally comes very slowly. People generally moved at a much slower pace and had access to very little information outside their village. 3 out of 4 people were rural and lived in villages much like the one you will be constructing. Each village housed between 200 and 400 people. The tallest structure in the village was the church.

5. Home life and work life were
closely integrated as most work
was done in nearby fields. Every member worked from sun-up to sun-down.
The homes of villagers were small
with inadequate light and poor
ventilation. All members of the
family slept in the same room and
sometimes even shared living
quarters with livestock. Life
expectancy was slightly over 40
years of age. Most people married
in their teens and had babies
before they were 20. One baby
out of three died before their first
birthday, only half of them made it
to 21. 

6. England was divided into social classes based primarily upon wealth
England was divided into social classes based primarily upon wealth. Most were poor farmers. A few were middle class, and they lived for the most part in London. A small few were aristocrats and usually owned large tracts of land in the English countryside. For both peasant and aristocrat, land was the source of wealth, livelihood, and well-being. Having enough land to produce adequate food, or to produce enough to sell, was the key to survival. 

7. The main occupation of England was farming
The main occupation of England was farming. Most English peasants or farmers did own their own land, however small. 
  Villages were connected by a system of dirt roads that became almost impassable during the wet season. As a result, transportation was often slow and trade beyond your village was not easy. Most English farmers never visited any place further than 25 miles from their birthplace, ever.

8. Industrial Revolution
Finally, for fuel, there were two sources: firewood
and coal. Nearly every English village had a coal
mining operation. These mines employed a small
number of village dwellers, especially in the winter.
Over the next 100 years, a revolution as significant
as the Neolithic Revolution will completely change
life in your little village. Some historians believe
this revolution is the most fundamental in human
history. 
This revolution would become known as the
Industrial Revolution

9. Scene
It is now England's geography is unique in that no section of the country is more than 90 miles from the sea, and there are many navigable rivers that crisscross the countryside. You are a part of an enterprising young capitalist group who decides to invest money in the construction of a canal. The profits are astounding! The transportation reduces the prices of raw materials and reduces the costs of transportation dramatically. Coal could now be transported from the mines to the towns for half the price of horse- wagon transportation. Since you invested your money, you made a tidy profit,
Build yourself 1 nice home anywhere on the map you would like it to be.

10. Scene
It is now For a variety of reasons (soap, diet, sanitation, etc.…) there is a population explosion in Europe, and your little English village. The cursed bubonic plague, which for centuries wiped out your village has been virtually eliminated due to the disposal of sewage into the canals, rivers, and the ocean. 
Add 5 houses.

11. Scene
It is The people of your village need a bit more food and goods to meet the needs of the new inhabitants. Coincidentally, a number of other noteworthy events occur around First, a number of new mechanical inventions for farms are developed. One is called the seed drill and another is the horse-drawn cultivator. Also, farmers begin to experiment with new, more productive farming practices, like crop rotation, new fertilizers, and new livestock breeding techniques. Consequently, an agricultural revolution causes farm production to significantly increase.
More food= more people. Add 5 more houses

12. Scene
It is now A man named Richard Arkwright invents a new machine that can spin and weave cloth a hundred times faster than could be done by hand in a farm. He calls his new machine the Water Frame because its source of power was water. Since the water frame was large, a special place was needed and, the first factory for prodding cotton cloth was built.
Add 1 factory.  Remember, the cotton factory must be placed on the river bank.  Label it “F.”
Don’t add any smoke to this factory!! 

13. Scene
It is now 1774, workers are needed to work in this new factory. Since many people (women) cannot compete with the spinning and weaving of cloth made in the factory and there are large numbers of poor families who have lost their livelihood due to the Enclosure Acts, we do have an available supply of workers. People move to your village to find work
Add  5  houses, 1  church , 1  pub, &  3  stores.  You
may draw additional roads and 1 additional bridge. 

14. Scene
The profits from the first textile factory are enormous. It should be no surprise that Richard Arkwright is referred to with two titles, the first millionaire and the father of the modern factory. New factories are built in your community. The early owners of these factories called themselves capitalists because they had the capital or money to purchase and own the “means of production”: the raw material, the building, the water frame, and pay their workers a fixed wage and make a profit. 
Add 5 new factories (must be on the river bank as they need
water power). 
Add 7 new houses

15. Scene 7 - 1780 It is 1780. Unemployed workers from surrounding
areas flood into your
community looking for work.
Although wages are low,
they look attractive to
starving families. Housing is
in great demand so for the
first time, a new kind of
housing is constructed
called tenements. These are apartments where dozens of families reside under one roof for a low cost of rent.
Add 5 Tenements. Label them “T” for tenement.

16. Add 3 stores, 1 pub, and 1 church. Also add 1 school for boys.
Scene
It is now More workers need to live, eat, shop, drink, and worship. In addition, boys were the only ones to be formally educated at this time, and then only the very wealthy attended school. Since workers work six days a week, the only day of rest was Sunday.
  Add 3 stores, 1 pub, and 1 church.  Also add 1 school for boys.

17. Scene
Now, it's Workers work long, hard hours in the factories. The average work day begins at 6:00am and ends at 9:00 pm. There is only a 30 minute break for lunch. After work, exhausted, stressed out, workers stop at their favorite pub for refreshment and relaxation. Alcohol begins to be consumed in record amounts.
Add 2 more pubs. 

18. Scene 10 - 1783 Add two large, special, luxury homes.
The year is now Workers are barely eking out a marginal existence. There is never enough money to send the kids to school. Still there are a few families whose lifestyle is comfortable if not luxurious. These are the large landowning farmers and factory owners.    Handsome manor houses are built and some are lavishly filled with expensive art. These new rich are not part of the aristocratic class of England, but they rose from the middle class, they can now enjoy some refinements of the rich: food, servants, furniture, education, clothing, carriages, etc.. 
Add two large, special, luxury homes.
(Note: from this point on trees may be removed if you need space).

19. Scene 11 - 1785 We move now to 1785. A man
named James Watt invents a new
machine called the steam engine.
First, it is far more efficient. Second,
it allows factories to be built away
from the river. Capitalists quickly
Add steam powered weaving and
spinning machines.  The main
business in England is still textile
manufacturing.
Add 10 factories with smoke. 
Add smoke to all other pre-existing
factories. 
Add 5 new tenements
Also, add one nicer houses
since people continue to get rich.

20. Scene 12 - 1800 The year is 1800. A man named Henry Court has
just invented a new process that makes it possible
for coal, which is, fortunately, in abundant supply
in England, to be used as the primary fuel in the
new iron industry. Consequently, your town is thrust into
the "New Age of Heavy Industry". Larger factory districts
appear which manufacture iron at low prices and that can
easily be transported by your canal.
Add 2 new coal mines replace your old wooden bridge with a new iron bridge.

21. Scene 13 - 1815 In 1815 we see the coal industry flourish.
Coal miners are busy digging coal from
the ground. There is a great demand for
coal now: home-heating, fuel for steam
engine, for the production of iron.
Although in the 1700's coal miners were
adults who worked in the winter to
supplement their farm wages, now, the
typical workers are children between the
ages of 8 and 14. The work is dangerous
and terribly unhealthy. Children become
victims of black lung, explosions and
accidents. Their growth is stunted as
they spend most of their 14 hour day
stooped over. They are malnourished
and unable to exercise or eat properly.
Add 1 cemetery for the victims of child labor.

22. Scene 14 - 1820 The year is now 1820. The existing
canals and dirt roads cannot
accommodate the heavy industrial
traffic. New experiments with
transportation using the power of the
steam engine are tried. The most
successful appears to be a steam-
engine that pulls a series of wagons
or cars on an iron track. The first
railroad is tested and proves to be
very effective
Add a railroad line connecting
your factory district to the outer
coal mining regions 
Add five more houses for the workers

23. Scene 15 - 1827 Now it is 1827. The new revolution in
transportation draws thousands of people
to your community. Soon there becomes a
surplus of workers. Capitalists who wish to
ensure their profits decide to hire women
and children over men because they can
perform the same factory labor at ½ to ¼
price. More and more children leave their
homes to work in factories, leading many
men to turn to lives of crime and
corruption, and drinking at the pub. For
the first time in England's history,
alcoholism appears in epidemic
proportions. Family life that existed for
hundreds of years in England is disrupted.
Family members seldom eat together or
spend time with each other. 
Add 1 jail and 2 pubs. 

24. Draw street lights, lining your business community streets.
Scene
The years pass. It is now Using steam engines and iron, and soon steel, British manufacturers introduce power driven machinery in many industries. The production of shoes, clothing, ammunition, and furniture become mechanized, as did paper and print making. Someone discovered that the gases that coal released could be burned to give off light. During the 1830's, London and other large towns became the first to pipe in gas to burn street lights. Soon all around England, hundreds of towns used gas to light street lights and homes.
Draw street lights, lining your business community streets. 

25. Scene 17 - 1838 We move on to 1838. The working conditions
in the factories continue to worsen. The two
predominant factories are textile and iron.
Working conditions in both of these areas
were appalling. Many workers contracted the
deadly factory fever or white lung disease. It
was probably a variety of lung ailments:
cancer, tuberculosis, emphysema, etc.…
Other workers were injured on the job in
factory accidents. There were no protective
railings around huge moving machines.
Children, weakened from lack of sleep and
food, often stumbled into machinery and were
ripped to shreds.  Women with long hair that
came undone often were caught in machinery.
Regardless, if you were unable to work, you
were fired. There was no health insurance.
There was always a daily line of unemployed
workers waiting to fill vacant jobs.
Add two hospitals, and 1 cemetery.

26. Add one more railroad line,
Scene
In 1840, the need for quicker and cheaper transportation increases. Coal, iron, finished products, raw materials must be transported from one area of England to the other. In Ireland in the late 1830's a potato famine drove hundreds of thousands of Irish to England. Now, there were very inexpensive laborers available to build more railroad lines.
Add one more railroad line,
Add 10 tenements. 

27. Scene
In 1845, there are no pollution limits or controls on factories and businesses. Windows, walls even trees are covered with layers of soot and coke. The river that once flowed through the quiet village for hundreds of years is now unfit for drinking, bathing or laundry. A new disease begins to take lives of people. Malignant tumors in people begin to grow in large numbers. Black lung is on the rise. The average life expectancy for the poor is now 30 years of age. Your city is overcrowded and shrouded in factory smoke.  The noise, the loss of privacy, loss of family unit, shatters the peace of the old ways. Suicide rates double, then triple.
Add 3 more cemeteries, 1 jail, and 3 more hospitals all to accommodate the victims of urban life…. 

28. Add 55 houses, 75 tenements, 15 stores, 6 churches, 15 factories,
Scene 20 –
In 1865 the discovery of germs by Louis Pasteur led to more conscientious sanitary regulations and procedures. People were living longer, corporations doubled, and the masses of workers ate away at the traditional isolation of rural areas.
By 1870, several million acres of good British land has been enclosed
and sold to private people to develop their large estates. The advantages to the rich are obvious. These farmers purchase the newest power-driven equipment and can easily feed the working class of England. The small landowning farmer cannot
afford the machinery, and therefore cannot compete. Thousands of these folks leave their villages (where their
ancestors had lived for thousands of years) and move to towns and
cities looking for work to feed their families.. By the thousands, they
move to the bleak, uninviting cities of the north in the new cotton
mills. 
Add 55 houses, 75 tenements, 15 stores, 6 churches, 15 factories,
17 business buildings, 5 pubs, 1 cemetery, 1 hospital, and another huge, nice house for the rich capitalists.