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Title: URBAN LIFE


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URBAN LIFE
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Development of the CITY
  • Began with small VILLAGES
  • Parts of Village
  • 1. Parade Area for horses
  • 2. Grid Iron Layout intersections at right
    angles

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City Buildings - Central Figures
  • Main Church
  • Town Hall
  • Custom House
  • Hospital
  • Arsenal

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Public Order and Public Space
  • Walking City no separate business/residential
    district
  • Public Order values of property are determined
    by location in town

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Park Planning
  • GOAL to provide a place for the residents to
    enjoy leisure time in a NATURAL SETTING
  • Washington D.C.s Mall
  • Central Park - NYC

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Mass Transit
  • Trolley cars, commuter trains, subways, and
    electric railways

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Suburbs middle class and wealthy residential
areas beyond the city limits

AFTER
Before
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Change of Cities

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Steel
Elevators
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Upper Class Lifethe new rich made money in
railroads, steel, mining, and publishing
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Conspicuous Consumption
  • Lavish spending to increase social prestige

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Philanthropy
  • Charitable efforts to promote public welfare

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Middle Class Life
  • Clerks, salespeople, accountants, managers

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The Poor City life was very difficult
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Poor lived in the worst conditions
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  • TENEMENT HOUSE a run-down and often overcrowded
    apartment house, esp. in a poor section of a
    large city.
  • African Americans high rents worse jobs some
    still felt better than South
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