industrial cities

Examples of industrial cities in the following topics:

• Industrial Cities

  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population growth and production.
  • During the industrial era, cities grew rapidly and became centers of population and production.
  • The growth of modern industry from the late 18th century onward led to massive urbanization and the rise of new, great cities, first in Europe, and then in other regions, as new opportunities brought huge numbers of migrants from rural communities into urban areas.
  • Rapid growth brought urban problems, and industrial-era cities were rife with dangers to health and safety.
  • Rapidly expanding industrial cities could be quite deadly, and were often full of contaminated water and air, and communicable diseases.

• The Rise of the City

  • The industrialization of America led to incredible population growth in urban centers; by 1900, 40% of Americans lived in cities.
  • The industrialization of the late 19th century brought on rapid urbanization.
  • Roughly 40 percent of Americans lived in cities, and the number was climbing.
  • These large city populations caused crime rates to rise, and disease to spread rapidly.
  • These new large cities were not coastal port cities (like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia) but laid inland along new transportation routes (like Denver, Chicago, and Cleveland).

• Industrialization and the Environment

  • The environmental effects of industrialization were especially concentrated in cities.
  • Untreated human waste was a major environmental hazard as rapidly growing cities lacked sewer systems and relied on contaminated wells within city confines for drinking water supplies.
  • Thoreau's writings celebrated nature and a simple life and provided a critique of urban and industrial values.
  • Hand bill from the New York City Board of Health, 1832.
  • Describe the toll that industrialization took on public health and the environment

• The Process of Urbanization

  • Mexico has rapidly changed from a primarily agricultural country to one with significant industry, including industrialized agriculture.
  • Urbanization tends to correlate positively with industrialization.
  • With the promise of greater employment opportunities that come from industrialization, people from rural areas will go to cities in pursuit of greater economic rewards.
  • Additional city heat is given off by vehicles and factories, as well as industrial and domestic heating and cooling units.
  • In the developing world, huge cities with sprawling slums have developed as agriculture and rural occupations have been supplanted by mechanized industries.

• Introduction to Sustainable Production Locations

  • The term ‘industrial ecology' was coined in 1989 by Robert Frosch and Nicolas Gallopoulus to describe the practice of bringing manufacturing and service facilities together in a symbiotic manner.
  • In layman's terms, industrial ecology (also known in a more limited manner as ‘industrial symbiosis') involves arranging businesses in a way so that wastewater, emissions, wastes and other outputs from one or more of the participating businesses can be used as raw materials by one or more of the others.
  • Nearby cities and towns benefit too, thanks to enhanced business and job development, increased tax revenues and reduced environmental concerns and health costs.
  • The city of Londonderry, New Hampshire, for example, became interested in eco-industrial parks after spending ten years and $13 million of taxpayer money cleaning up three toxic waste sites.
  • In Canada, Burnside Park (Halifax, Nova Scotia) is perhaps the best-known example of an eco-industrial park with an estimated 1,500 businesses involved.

• The Earliest Cities

  • Mesopotamian cities included Eridu, Uruk, and Ur.
  • Early cities also arose in the Indus Valley and ancient China.
  • Some ancient cities grew to be powerful capital cities and centers of commerce and industry, situated at the centers of growing ancient empires.
  • Why did cities form in the first place?
  • Cities may have held other advantages, too.

• The Environmental Impact of Cities

  • With industrialization came urbanization.
  • Soon people began to flock from rural, farm areas to large cities.
  • Not only did urbanization cause cities to grow in population, it also caused cities to grow in building size.
  • City living was for the lower class; the upper class had enough money to get away from all of the pollution and the city stench.
  • For example, in the city of Chicago, you will find a lot of the nicer homes away from the city, and more towards the suburbs.

• The Structure of Cities

  • This dispersion of cities illustrates central place theory.
  • It is surrounded by a zone of transition (B), which contains industry and poorer-quality housing.
  • In this context, urban structure is concerned with the arrangement of the CBD, industrial and residential areas, and open space.
  • An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.
  • They also set aside industrial uses from urban areas to reduce the environmental and social impact of industrial uses and to provide a distinct zone of environmental controls specific to industrial needs.

• U.S. Urban Patterns

  • Usually, this type of population center is associated with a cluster of industrial and cultural enterprises.
  • For example, city governments often use political boundaries to delineate what counts as a city.
  • Other agencies may define "urban" based on land use: places count as urban if they are built up with residential neighborhoods, industrial sites, railroad yards, cemeteries, airports, golf courses, and similar areas.
  • For example, the city of Greenville, South Carolina has a city population under 60,000 and an urbanized area population of over 300,000, while Greensboro, North Carolina has a city population over 200,000 and an urbanized area population of around 270,000.
  • In the United States, the largest urban area is New York City, with over 8 million people within the city limits and over 19 million in the urban area.

• Shrinking Cities and Counter-Urbanization

  • In developed countries, people are able to move out of cities while maintaining many of the advantages of city life because improved communications and means of transportation.
  • White flight during the post-war period contributed to urban decay, a process whereby a city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.
  • Urban decay was caused in part by the loss of industrial and manufacturing jobs as they moved into rural areas or overseas, where labor was cheaper.
  • Thus, suburbs were built—smaller cities located on the edges of a larger city, which often include residential neighborhoods for those working in the area.
  • Baltimore, Maryland is an example of a shrinking American city.