Science and Urban Life

Section 16*1pp. 482-487

Preview Questions

• How did cities cope with their growing populations?

• How did new technology transform communications?

I. Technology and City Life • Skyscrapers

– Solve space problem

– Steel frame & elevator

• Electric Transit – Cities expand– Suburbs

I. Technology and City Life

• Engineering and Urban Planning– Suspension Bridges

I. Technology and City Life

• Engineering and Urban Planning– City Planning

• Leisure• Serenity• Nature

I. Technology and City Life

• City Planning– Daniel Burnham

• “White City” • Lakefront Parks

I. Technology and City Life

Wainwright Building in St. Louis

10 stories high

The Rookery, Chicago, IL (1886), John Wellborn Root

Monadnock Building, Chicago, IL (1884-92), Burnham and Root

II. New Technologies• Printing

– Cheap paper– Books affordable

• Airplanes– Wright Brothers

Mark Twain

• George Eastman– Kodak Company– Amateur photography– Photojournalism

II. New Technologies

Expanding Public Education

Section 16*2pp. 488-491

Preview Questions

• How did education change in the late 1800’s?

• What changes were made in higher education?

I. Expanding Public Education

• Changes in 1900’s– Increase number

of schools– Expand curriculum– Technical and

Managerial programs

I. Expanding Public Education

• Cultural Reflections in Education – Whites: Affected the most

– African-Americans: Most don’t attend high school

– Immigrants: Americanization programs

II. Expanding Higher Education

• Adopt modern curriculum – Language, physical

science, psychology – Professional graduate

programs

• African American Higher Education – Booker T. Washington

• Founded Tuskegee Institute• Education would end racism

II. Expanding Higher Education

II. Expanding Higher Education

• W.E.B. Du Bois – Favored a liberal arts education

"history cannot ignore W.E.B. DuBois because history has to reflect truth and Dr. DuBois was a tireless explorer and a gifted discoverer of social truths. His singular greatness lay in his quest for truth about his own people. There were very few scholars who concerned themselves with honest study of the black man and he sought to fill this immense void. The degree to which he succeeded

disclosed the great dimensions of the man.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.