World History › Section U · Life and labor in the industrial world › Topic U.2
Life in the industrial city
Industrial cities grew faster than anyone could plan them. They were crowded, filthy and often deadly, yet they also offered wages, entertainment and freedoms the countryside could not. This topic explores both faces of the city and how people tried to fix it.
In this topic
- Cities that outran planning
- Crowded homes
- Company towns
- Worked example: the Pullman town
- Dirty streets, water and air
- Worked example: cholera and the sanitary city
- Moving around the city
- Leisure and shopping
- Seeing poverty
- The city in art and literature
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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