I. Urbanization
A. Industrial Sources of City Growth
1. Until the Civil War, cities were centers of commerce not industry.
2. Cities were places where merchants bought and sold there goods.
3. After mid-century, industry began to abandon the countryside.
4. NY, Phil., Brooklyn, St, Louis were among the largest cities.
5. Many smaller cities became one-industry towns.
6. As factories became bigger, their size cont. to urban growth.
B. City Building
1. The commercial cities of the early nineteenth century had been compact places.
2. The first innovation, dating back to the 1820’s had been omnibus, and elongated version of the horse-drawn coach.
3. Then came the electric trolley car.
4. In 1890 the number of passengers carried on American Streets railways was more than 2 billion per year, twice the rest of the world combined.
5. If urban transit evolved in response to the geographic expansion of the American city, the need for more......
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