The Urbanization Game

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The Urbanization Game
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Round 1

• Draw keep it simple
• a RIVER across the paper average 1-1/2" wide
  and runs edge to edge left to right
• 2 BRIDGES wooden
• 4 main ROADSsingle line
• 15 HOUSES note foundation of house must be
  touching a road

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Urbanization

• U rban is an adjective that means city
• R ivers become polluted during urbanization
• B urning coal powers the steam engine
• A griculture (farming) is mechanized (machines
  do the work)
• N eighbors move from the country to the city

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Round 2

• Select one house, which will be yours shade it
  in
• Draw must also have foundations on a road
• 1 CHURCH
• 1 CEMETERY
• 2 STORES
• 1 PUB

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Round 3

• English Countryside
• 1730
• o Small family farms where
• people grow their own
• food--Subsistence
• Farming
• o Most people are poor
• o Crime is low
• o Market days, but no
• supermarket
• o No cars, most walk, or the
• rich own a horse cart

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1750 Population Explosion

• due to improved
• hygiene--such as soap
• sewage lines
• Draw
• o 10 more houses
• o 1 more church
• o 1 more pub
• o 1 more road
• o 1 more river bridge
• o 1 more store

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Round 4

• Draw
• 10 more HOUSES 16-25
• 1 more CHURCH
• 1 more PUB
• 1 more ROAD
• 1 MORE RIVER BRIDGE
• 1 more STORE

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Round 5

• Draw a BROKEN LINE around an area on your paper
  the area needs to be as large as your hand to
  show this consolidation.
• WRITE in this area "For Agricultural Use Only".
• Also, relocate any houses and remember that
  NOTHING is to be drawn in this area for the rest
  of the game.

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Factory

• F abric (cloth) is made in the earliest
  factories
• A rkwright, Richard--father of the factory
• C apital-- is needed to start a factory
• T abloids talk about factory life
• O bedient workers wont get fired
• R ivers provide the energy for the first
  factories
• Y arn is factory product

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Round 6

• Draw
• 1 FACTORY, with smoke remember where it must
  go.
• 1 CAPITALIST ESTATE with a to show it is
  Arkwright's estate.

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Round 7

• To show this change, draw
• 15 HOUSES 26-40
• 5 TENEMENTS 1-5
• 1 CHURCH
• 1 PUB
• 1 STORE
• 1 BRIDGE
• ANY ADDITIONAL ROADS

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Round 7 cont

• Add 1 CANAL the canal runs from the river to the
  edge of paper and should be at least 6 inches
  long
• Canal
• 1 packhorse could
• move 1000 lbs by
• road
• 1 packhorse could
• move 100,000 lbs by
• canal

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Round 8

• Add 5 factories 2-6 no smoke coming out yet
• Factory System
• Manufacture of goods in a
• factory (man in factory)
• Each worker did a separate
• part of the total assembly of a
• product.
• Workers paid by hourly wage
• Machines to produce cloth all
• together in a central factory.
• Raw material would arrive at
• the top of the mill and emerge
• as reels of spun woven
• cotton or silk at the base.

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Round 9

• Add 10 HOUSES 41-50
• 20 TENEMENTS 6 - 25
• People from other
• villages now move to
• your village
• Housing is thrown up
• quickly, and not built to
• code

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Round 10

• Add 4 STORES
• Add 1 CHURCH
• More workers mean
• more people have to
• live, eat and shop for
• goods.
• Since workers have
• only Sunday off, many
• seek religious relief.

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Round 11

• Add 4 PUBS
• Add 1 SCHOOL
• Women worked long
• hard hours in the
• factories. The average
• workday began at 6 am
• and ended at 9 pm.
• There is only a 15
• minute break for lunch.
• After work, exhausted,
• they stop at their
• favorite pub to relax.

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Round 12

• Add 4 ESTATES with on them
• Add ROADS, as needed
• Capitalists own the
• factory and make
• large profits.

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Round 13

• Draw 3 CANALS 3 to 6 inches long
• Draw 10 FACTORIES 7-16, with smoke
• Add 3 COAL MINES the canals connect the coal
  mines to the factories the coal mines ate at the
  edge of the paper if a house or tenement is in
  the way, relocate it.

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Round 14

• Add 3 COAL MINES
• Add 10 FACTORIES 17-26 for textile iron
• Add one new IRON BRIDGE

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Round 15

• Add 3 RAILROAD LINES connecting your factories
  and coal mines the railroad should be near at
  least 15 factories
• Add any IRON BRIDGES you need.

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Social Urban Changes

• o Wages are higher in town than in the
  countryside.
• o More people move to the city to find work
• o No more I
• o ncome from cottage industry.
• o Workers find jobs in coal mines, factories and
  in construction
• of homes, tenements railroad lines.

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Round 16

• 5 HOUSES 51 - 55
• 10 TENEMENTS 26 - 35
• 5 STORES
• 2 CEMETERIES
• 5 PUBS
• 1 CHURCH
• 3 SCHOOLS
• Due to the pressures of urban growth, ELIMINATE
  one-half of the agricultural land set aside
  during the enclosure movement.

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Round 17

• Erase 1 SCHOOL
• About 50,000 people now reside in your town
• There are too many workers--unemployment
• increases
• Factory owners hire children and women before
  men
• because they work at 1/2 to 1/4 the wage of men.
• Children do factory work and work in coal mines
  
• where small size is an advantage

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Round 18

• Add 4 PUBS
• Add 2 JAILS
• As a result male unemployment, the
• crime rate begins to soar.
• Alcoholism reaches epidemic
• proportions.

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Round 19

• Add 2 CEMETERIES
• Add 2 HOSPITALS
• The Working condition in the factories are
• terrible. Many workers get the deadly factory
• fever or white lung disease. Others injure or
• mutilate their bodies in factory accidents.

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• Machines contain no safety devices. Children,
• weakened from lack of sleep and proper diet
• succumb more quickly. Capitalists are
• relatively indifferent as there is such a large
• labor force available for employment that will
• replace those who cannot work

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Round 20

• Meanwhile, the need for better Rail Road
• transportation continues. Coal, iron and other
• raw materials need to be moved to the
• factories. The finished products from the
• factory need to be moved to the sea ports and
• overseas to foreign markets.
• More workers are to build the Rail Road, work
• in the coal mines and toil in the factories and
• come they do to your town/city.

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• Add 2 railroad lines
• Add 5 TENEMENTS
• 5 STORES
• 1 CHURCH
• 3 JAILS
• Add one THEATRE/MUSEUM

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Round 21

• 1830
• There are no pollution controls, so the air in
• your city is black. At noon, the sun doesnt
• cast a shadow, smog turns day into night. The
• water is completely unfit for drinking and
• bathing. Many citizens, even those who do not
• work in the factories, develop lung cancer and
• other fatal diseases which are associated with
• intense stress. People are lucky if they reach
• 40 years of age. Your city is overcrowded and
• shrouded in factory smoke. The loss of
• privacy and clean air troubled many. Suicide
• rates begin to double. The stress of urban
• work and live becomes unbearable for many

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• ADD ONE HOSPITAL
• 3 CEMETERIES
• 1 JAIL