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1 Urbanization Demographics, Environment, Politics

2 Structural Steel Structural Steel changed the urban environment with bridges and sky- scrapers

3 Brooklyn Bridge

4 ‘Skyscraper’

5 “Chicago School” Great Chicago Fire of 1871 demanded a new city to be built Soaring population descended on Chicago “Chicago School” a small group of professional architects designing the new, tall, buildings

6 Connecticut Mill

7 Chicago home

8 San Jose 1883, Third and Santa Clara streets Odd Fellows Building

9 Jacob Riis School Cities, comprehensive free public school systems and public libraries

10 Public works Street paving, trolley tracks, underground subway lines

11 Trolley, North First in San Jose

12 Sewers and Water mains Flush toilet, bathtubs, and lavatories in new apartments— because of improvements in city sewers and water mains.

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14 Bosses William Marcy Tweed or “Boss Tweed” of New York Bribery and Graft to control New York politics

15 Nast cartoon

16 Tammany Hall

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18 Lincoln Steffens

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21 2009

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