Urbanization 3
One more example of urbanization is the California gold rush. In just one year the population of California grew from 15,000 to nearly 150,000. The increase in huge! Can you imagine the population of deerfield becoming 150,000 in just one year. That is amazing. Although this is not because of the city, there was a similar "want". They wanted money and gold, the generally reasoning for urbanization is money and technology, but they both are in order to become more civilized. Once the gold was gone, people left. Would it be the same for urbanization? Once technology catches up with the rest of the country, will we stop focusing on the cities and start focusing on other important things like the environment? i hope so.
"California gold rush." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 31 Jan. 2010.
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3 comments:
That's really impressive that the California Gold Rush attracted that many people. Another dramatic increase occured between 1860 and 1910, which allowed medium-sized cities to become very large, such as Chicago.
I like this example you use of San Fransisco. I used the same example but you explained more why people swarm to cities in this time; money and technology. People go where money is. Also, I think your reasoning later is why people later went to the suburbs. They care more about the leisure than they do work. Overall Great post.
I really liked when you said, "Can you imagine the population of deerfield becoming 150,000 in just one year." When you wrote this, it helped me connect the ideas you discussed in your blog post to my own life. Although the gold rush in California and our town in Deerfield as extremly different, you manage to bring the too together. Your connections are great and really help me see how urbanization could (and does) effect my life. Keep up the good work!
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