1. The Urban Game

2. The year is 1700 and the nation is England
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 your board.

3. It is now 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.

4. 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
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. 

5. 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. A small few were aristocrats and usually owned large tracts of land in the English countryside. Land was the source of wealth, livelihood, and well-being. Having enough land to produce adequate food, or to produce enough to sell, or even rent was the key to survival. 

6. 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.

7. 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. 
We will experience some of the changes over the next half hour. 
This revolution would become known as the
Industrial Revolution

8. Rules of the Activity Rules:
You will listen to a story on the progression of society during the Industrial Revolution
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

9. Round
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. An enterprising young capitalist group (you guys) decides to invest money in the construction of a canal. The profits are astounding! This new revolution in transportation reduced the prices of raw materials and reduced 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.

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

12. Round
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, farm production is significantly increased.
Add 5 more houses

13. Round
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. 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.  Don’t add any smoke to this factory!!  Add 5
houses for workers.

14. Round 5 - 1774 may draw additional roads and 1 additional bridge.
It is now 1774, workers are needed to work in this new factory. Machines have taken the place of people on the farms and the Enclosure Acts have forced people to move to your town that is now becoming a city.
Add  5  houses, 1  church , 1  pub, &  1  store.  You
may draw additional roads and 1 additional bridge. 

15. The profits from the first textile factory are enormous
The profits from the first textile factory are enormous. 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 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 5 houses

16. Round 6 - 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 and for the
first time, a new kind of
housing is constructed
called tenements. Here,
dozens of families reside
under one roof.
Add 5 Tenements.

17. Add 1 store, 1 pub, and 1 church. Also add 1 school for boys.
Round
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 1 store, 1 pub, and 1 church.  Also add 1 school for boys.

19. Round
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. 

20. Round 9 - 1783 Add two large, special, luxury homes.
The year is now Workers are barely eking out a marginal existence. 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 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).

21. Round 10 - 1785 We move now to 1785. A man
named James Watt invents a new
machine called the steam engine.
It allows factories to be built away
from the river. The main
business in England is still textile
manufacturing.
Add 10 factories with smoke.  Add
smoke to all other pre-existing
factories.  Also, add one nicer
house since people continue to
get rich.

22. Round 11 - 1800 The year is 1800. A man named Henry Cort 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".
Add 2 new coal mines and a new iron bridge to replace the old wooden one.  

23. Round 12 - 1815 In 1815 we see the coal industry flourish.
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, 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.

24. Round 13 - 1820 The year is now 1820. The existing
dirt roads cannot accommodate the
heavy industrial traffic. The steam
engine is used in the creation of the
railroad.
Add 1 railroad line connecting
your factory district to the outer
coal mining region 

25. Draw street lights, lining your business community streets.
Round
The years pass. It is now Using steam engines and iron, and soon steel, British manufacturers introduce power driven machinery in many industries. People used machinery to cut and finish lumber, to process foods, and make other machines. Some new inventions and innovations had important BI-products that turned into separate industries. Then 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. 

26. Round 15 - 1838 We move on to 1838. The working conditions
in the factories continue to worsen.
Working conditions in both of these areas
were appalling. Many workers contracted the
deadly factory fever or white lung disease.
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.

27. Add 1 museum, 2 theaters, and 2 private schools.
Round
It is 1842, There are some advantages for many of the urban dwellers. City life is quite different from country life. For the small, but growing middle class, a new cultural life is available. Museums, theaters, operas, restaurants, plays, concerts are made available. Before, only the wealthy, elite would attend these events.
Add 1 museum, 2 theaters, and 2 private schools. 

28. Round
In 1845, there are no pollution limits or controls on factories and businesses. Windows, walls even trees are covered with layers of soot. 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 grown 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…. 

29. Add 20 houses, 5 tenements, 2 stores, 1 church, 5 factories,
Round 18 – 1850
By 1850, new machines continue to take the jobs of worker in England. The Enclosure movement also takes the jobs of many farmers. Thousands of people move to your city in search of jobs. 
Add 20 houses, 5 tenements, 2 stores, 1 church, 5 factories,
1 pub, and another huge, nice house. 

32. Exit Activity
As the mayor of this city, name and describe one issue that you are going to have to deal with.
Describe any problems you had while developing your city
What would you do differently if you had the chance to create this city again?
How do you envision your city benefiting the people?