1. The New Metropolis Mass Transit Skyscrapers The Electric City
The Shape of the Industrial City
Mass Transit
Trolley cars, elevated railroads (L-trains), and subways emerged in large cities providing mass transportation and replaced horse and buggies
Skyscrapers
First appeared in Chicago - Chicago School led by Louis Sullivan
Steel, plate glass and elevators made skyscrapers possible
Allowed landowners to make $ on small plots of land by building up
The Electric City
Electricity emerged in cities after 1890
“A light is as good as a policeman.”

2. The New Metropolis Newcomers and Neighborhoods
Men and women moved to cities from rural areas (in addition to immigrants)
More financial opportunities were available than just the farming of the rural areas.
Immigrants often lived in the same communities - ethnic clustering - Chinatown, Little Italy, the Barrios etc.
African Americans also began moving to cities (more so after WWI)
In 1900, almost 90% of African American lived in the South
Race Riots:
Atlanta, New York, Springfield, Illinois, Evansville, Indiana
Tenement Houses - (Dumbell Tenements)
5-6 story, cramped apartments, many families sharing few rooms
One bathroom per floor in these buildings

3. The New Metropolis City Cultures Urban Amusements
Vaudeville Theater - music, skits, and magic shows
Nickelodeons - $.05 movie theaters
Amusement parks - Coney Island, NY - inspired other amusement parks throughout the country
Ragtime and City Blues
Ragtime - popular among all classes and races – usually originated by black musicians
Introduced at the Chicago’s World Fair in Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen
Scott Joplin – from Texarkana was the most famous ragtime composer
Blues - appealed to individuals in cities - spoke of handwork and heartache
Sex and the City
Dating became more acceptable in large cities without chaperones
Men often paid for women since women had little $ - earned less wages
New York City had a large gay population Stonewall Riots
Terms like “gold digger” and “queer” both entered the vernacular

4. The New Metropolis City Cultures High Culture Urban Journalism
Rich helped promote museums - some out of a sense of duty
NY’s Metropolitan Opera and Museum of Modern Art opened
Andrew Carnegie helped create over 1,000 libraries across the nation - Gospel of Wealth
Urban Journalism
Yellow Journalism - sensationalizing and exaggerating news stories in order to sell newspapers
Cause of the Spanish-American War
Looking for a good book on yellow journalism? Murder of the Century, Paul Collins
Muckrakers - term coined by Teddy Roosevelt to describe the journalists that exposed corruption and problems of society