1. Growth of the Cities

2. Shape of the City Poor = city’s center Lived in tenements
Crowded, poorly built urban apartments during the Gilded Age

3. Tenement Pictures

4. Tenement Pictures

5. Tenement Pictures

6. Tenement Pictures

7. Tenement Pictures

8. Air Shaft

9. Air Shaft

10. Air Shaft

11. Shape of the City Next band out – “zone of emergence”
Those on their way up
Certain factory workers
Skilled laborers
Professional mechanics
Better tenements, neater row houses
Could still slip back into poverty

12. Shape of the City Middle class – “suburban fringe”
White-collar managers and executives
Larger houses w/ neat, tree-lined streets
Wealthy class – “5th Avenue”
Mansions
Typical rich guy stuff