HIST 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Frederick Law Olmsted, Home Insurance Building, Carriage
16 May 2016
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Chapter 18 the industrial city: building it, living in it. Between 1820 and 1900, urban population swelled and in 1900,nearly 6. 5 million people inhabited just 3 great cities: new york, chicago, and pittsburgh. Millionaires and growing middle class: urbanization. Before the civil war, cities were places of commerce, not industry. Railroads allowed factories at places best situated in relation to suppliers and markets. Others built big plants at edge of city to take advantage of available labor and transportation: city innovation. Many major cities, such as philadelphia were still compact and densely settled in. First was omnibus, elongated horse drawn carriage. Then horsecar which ran on iron tracks. Electric trolley car thomas edison frank j. sprague. Underground opened in boston and manhattan become rapid transit: skyscrapers. First william le baron jenny"s ten-story home insurance building (1885) in chicago. Chicago pioneered skyscrapers: the electric city.
