Science and Urban Life
The Flatiron Building and other new building served as symbols served as symbols of a rich and optimistic society.
How did new technologies make the building of skyscrapers practical?
First,Burnham designed the “white city”to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. His greatest legacy to Chicago may have been his idea for a lakefront park system, complete with beaches, playing fields, and playgrounds.
What’s Chicago’s lakefront？
7.6 million student enrolled
1871
The number of kindergartens surged from 200 in 1880 to 3,000 in 1900, and, under the guidance of William Torrey Harries, public school system began to add kindergartens to their programs.
Why did American children begin attending school at a younger age?
designed this slender 285-foor tower in 1920
Daniel Burnham
These streetcar, elevated trains, and subways enabled cities to annex suburban development that mushroomed along the advancing transportation routes
How did electric transit impact urban life?
Though not all cities could claim a lakefront vista for recreation, most cities sprinkled neighborhood parks where their residents needed them. Urban planners provided for local parks-such as Lincoln Park in Chicago-so that “the sweet breath of plant life”would be available to everyone.
What is Neighborhood Parks?
9.9 million student enrolled
1880
Labor activist often protested that Ford's educational goals were aimed at weakening the trade union movement by teaching workers not to confront management.
What institutions encouraged European immigrates to become assimilated?
Spearheaded the movement for planned urban parks
Frederick Law Olmsted
List the major changes in cities near the turn of the turn of the century.
On the Great Lakes, the shipping business depended on accessible harbors. Burnham saw the advantage of harbors for recreation and commercial purposes, but he advocated moving the harbors away from the central business districts to free space for public use.
What is Harbors For Cities?
15.5 million student enrolled
1900
By 1990 out of about 9 million African American, only 3,880 were in attendance at college or professional schools.
Described the state or higher education for African American at the turn of the century.
A public place for walking
promenade
In the early 20th century, brothers___________, bicycle manufactures from Dayton, Ohio, experienced with new engines powerful enough to keep "heavier-than-air" craft aloft.
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Burnham redesigned the street pattern to create a group of long streets that would converge on a grand plaza, a practice reflected in other American cities. The convergence of major thoroughfares at a city’s center helped create a unified city form a host of neighborhoods.
What is The Civic Center?
17.8 million student enrolled
1910
The first African American ro receive a doctorate from Harvard(in 1895), strongly disagreed with Washington's gradual approach.
W. E. B. Du Bois.
designed the ten-story Wainwright Building in St.Louis.
louis sullivan
developed a series of more convenient alternatives to the heavy glass plates previously used.
George Eastman
In ??? century, brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright Bicycle manufacturers from Dayton, Ohio, experimented with new engines powerful enough to keep “heavier-than-air” craft aloft.
20th
21.6 million student enrolled
1920
Believed that racism would end once blacks acquired userful labor skills and proved their economic value to society
Booker T. Washington.
An engine in which fuel is burned within the engine rather than in an external furnace
internal combustion engine