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American Urbanization and Industrialization, 2007.
This paper explores the Progressive Era of the nineteenth century and its effects on American society.
1,257 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 29.95
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The paper discusses American urbanization and industrialization in the 19th century and looks at changes in labor dynamics, industry and everyday living, urbanization, social movements and socio-political policies. The paper posits that changes in the economic structure of the United States led to socio-political changes that resulted in its becoming one of the first nations that promoted and embodied modernism with the emergence of the 20th century.
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"In the history of the United States as a nation and state, 19th century is marked as a period wherein significant changes and shifts in the society began, occurred and developed to result later into the country's significant role in the process of promoting modernism in the 20th century. There are many catalysts that serve as causes for the rapid urbanization and industrialization of the country; each of these catalysts or causes were significant in contributing to this significant change in American society and history."
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African-American Urbanization, 2006.
An examination of African American migration and urbanization.
2,730 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 56.95
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This paper explores the reasons for the surge in African-American migration from the rural south to the urban north of America in the early part of the 20th century. It continues to discuss the economic opportunities, oppression, injustices and denial of social equality experienced by the migrants. The author further explores the African-American culture which emerged within the cities and their unique socialization.
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"The tale of the great black migration, their hardships and struggles to establish a life amongst the urban sprawl, was but another root forming a firm foundation upon which could be built a great future. Allen Ballard, a black professor of political science at New York University who lived during this period, expressed these ideas when he stated: "there was dirt, unemployment, sickness, and death all around our community. Yet, through it all, and out of the very depths of human degradation, came a triumphant sense of certitude about the Southern Blacks' ability to survive the city, as they had surmounted oppression..." "
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Industrialization & Urbanization & Its Effect On Japan's Individualism, 1989.
Argues that, unlike in other societies, the traditional structure of Japanese society did not change in modernization.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, £ 32.95
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" In pre.modern society, the family was the most important factor to its members. The members depended on others within the family for support in everything they did. In other words, "individual" was not a good word to describe a single person, because that person was just one part of the entire peasant household. Claims have been made by sociologists such as Georg Simmel and Peter Berger that single persons develop individuality as a result of the breakup of the peasant household economy brought about by industrialization and urbanization. This paper will attempt to show that this is not the case for Japanese society."
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Industrialization and American Art, 1999.
Examines the industrial revolution and its impact on American artists before and after the Civil War. Discusses themes, socioeconomic aspects, style and major artists.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 38.95
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"The industrial revolution took permanent hold in the United States around 1850 and its influence on American art is felt to the present day. But this influence was quite diffuse and ranged from direct responses to the changing nature of American society to the ability of new wealth to support styles of art that took little cognizance of anything as mundane as industry. In the second half of the nineteenth century America was transformed by its rise to immense power and wealth from a middling nation with limited influence to its twentieth-century position as a world leader. In domestic terms the growth of industry signaled the start of great waves of immigration that changed the ethnic makeup of the young country and it heightened the contrast between agrarian and urban economies.
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"The industrial revolution took permanent hold in the United States around 1850 and its influence on American art is felt to the present day. But this influence was quite diffuse and ranged from direct responses to the changing nature of American society to the ability of new wealth to support styles of art that took little cognizance of anything as mundane as industry. In the second half of the nineteenth century America was transformed by its rise to immense power and wealth from a middling nation with limited influence to its twentieth-century position as a world leader. In domestic terms the growth of industry signaled the start of great waves of immigration that changed the ethnic makeup of the young country and it heightened the contrast between agrarian and urban economies that had been a source of conflict since the time of Jefferson. In international terms the ..."
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Industrial And Urban Revolutions, 2002.
Discusses the changes brought about by the industrial and urban revolutions of the 18th and 19th century.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 30.95
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The Industrial and Urban Revolutions during the 18th and 19th Century brought many changes to the country. Many inventors discovered some major discoveries. Families often moved from the country to the town. Child labor was quite common with families that had six or seven children.
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Urbanization and Rural Urban Migration in China, 2006.
A discussion on the emerging-entrepreneurial class and rural urban migrations in China.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, £ 49.95
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This paper discusses urbanization and rural urban migration in developing countries. In particular, the paper discusses the role that the entrepreneurial class, made up most of rural peasant migrants, has had on China. Basically these individuals are responsible for all of the political and economic changes in China.
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"Urbanization and rural-urban migrations are two very closely related phenomena. According to K. Jegasothy in "Population and Rural-Urban Environmental Interactions in Developing Countries," urbanization is conventionally defined as a process of spatial movement of a population towards towns and cities and their resulting expansion" (Jegasothy 1031). Urbanization is the direct result of rural-urban migrations. This is because urbanization is caused by people from rural areas moving into cities and towns. The rate of urbanization and rural-urban migrations has been increasing in recent decades."
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The Pros and Cons of Urbanization, 2005.
Examines the advantages and disadvantages of urbanization and industrialization.
2,356 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, £ 50.95
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In 1938, Louis Wirth wrote an article about his observations and critiques of urbanization. While many of his observations are held to be true today, nobody can clearly define what makes up a city or an urban area. The paper argues that whether urbanization and industrialization are good is all a matter of personal opinion. While urbanization poses a threat to certain social classes and even the environment, it has also helped to evolve the way goods and services are made available to a broad area. The paper argues that ,if urbanization continues on the path that it is currently on, guidelines and boundaries will have to be put in place to prevent the destruction of all that urbanization has helped us achieve.
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"Alan Booth raised an issue of concern about overpopulation and crowding in urban areas. Urban crowding can affect a number of factors. First, the more people there are in an area, the more space people will desire due to the need for privacy. This can cause rapid expansion in what was a small crowded area. When an area expands rapidly, it can cause great environmental damage. It crowds wildlife populations and often destroys useful and fertile farm land or forests. Wildlife ecosystems respond with biological controls on fertility and birth rates that reduce populations and can lead species to become endangered in certain areas. The destruction of farm land is becoming more and more of an issue, especially in the mid-west where many of the United States' crops are grown. Land in the mid-west is fairly plentiful and peoples' desire for more personal space is leading real-estate developers to buy up land in the central U.S. and clear it for housing developments. This also applies to the metropolitan areas and some suburban areas within which the government provides housing (Booth 1976:1-10)."
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Industrialization, 2007.
This paper discusses urban industrialization in the West.
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses that during the 19th century, the application of science to inventions started the Industrial Revolution, the mass production of material goods by machines. The writer notes that although population growth had reached new highs, the first step in this revolution happened in mid-eighteenth-century England, with the development of the steam engine and machines for spinning and weaving textiles. The writer maintains that industrialism was the reason for the West's economic and military dominance over the rest of the world. The writer points out that the industrial revolution was created by the discoveries of modern metals, creating machines and techniques to find and transport the fuel to produce goods. However, the writer notes that the needs of the masses who worked in the resulting factories grew faster than their purses. The writer concludes that after the industrial boom had passed, they were left without jobs to deal with their sociological problems and with very little help or sympathy from the classes above them, who had started the factories and swept up the profits from their enterprises.
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"Wealthy entrepreneurs and corporations were able to create great structures in the major cities. In 1856 Henry Bessemer (British) perfected the process for producing inexpensive steel; and the next year E.G. Otis (American) installed the first safety elevator. From 1773, cast iron provided strength without bulk and provided architects to span broader widths and raise structures to greater heights than traditional stone buildings. John Nash used cast iron in 1815 for the Brighton Pavilion. The first cast-iron suspension bridge began to be constructed in 1836, but not until mid-century was iron used as skeletal support for mills, warehouses and railroad stations. Joseph Paxton built Paxton's Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of London in 1851 of glass and steel in only nine months. It was a prefabricated structure, and after the exhibition was moved to a new site. It burned down in 1930. The Eiffel Tower was also built as a novelty, but became an emblem of modernism. Designed as a viewing tower by Gustave Eiffel for the Paris World Exhibition of 1889, it is a 1,064-foot-high cast iron skeleton equipped with elevators."
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From the Rural to Urban Areas: China and India, 2004.
This paper discusses the problems of urbanization, industrialization, and housing security in China and India as their populations immigrate from rural to urban areas.
2,565 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 53.95
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This paper explains that the spectacular growth and development of the urban habitation over the past 16 years is just the beginning of a gigantic phase of extension. The author points out that China?s ecological problems from the speedy urbanization and industrialization process in the recent decades generate social effects, causing a great deal of harm to human health, instigating economic and welfare suffering, and harming the environment in both urban and rural areas of China. The paper relates that, because of increasing industrialization and urbanization, the majority of the Indian cities have exceedingly compact habitation that results in overcrowding, clogging, obstruction, traffic jams, air pollution, noise pollution, as well as major deficiencies of vital requirements and necessities of life
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Introduction
The Impact of Urbanization, Industrialization And Housing Security on China
Ecological Problems in Urban China
The Problem of Water and Cleanliness in Urban China
The Problem of Clearance of Waste-Water in Urban China
The Problem of Air Pollution in Urban China
The Impact of Urbanization, Industrialization And Housing Security on India
Conclusion
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"The velocity of urbanization and industrialization was extremely slow prior to the late 1970s when contrasted with other developing states. The proportion of urban inhabitants was 11.2 in 1950, and still barely 17.9 by 1978. This low degree of urbanization had been the consequence from purposeful procedures of restraining rural-urban immigration and urban increase. Economic restructurings have since accelerated the industrialization and urbanization procedures. Large numerals of towns, as well as, cities have surfaced, at the same time as old cities are quickly increasing their managerial spheres."
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The Urbanization Process, 2002.
Looks at global variations in levels of urbanization and the relationship between urbanization, economic development and social conditions.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 9 sources, £ 73.95
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For people who live in a country such as Canada, most are aware of the prominence of urban centers. In fact, the majority of people live and work in urban areas in most, if not all, industrialized countries. But this only serves to focus attention on topics such as global variations in levels of urbanization as well as the relationship between urbanization, economic development and social conditions. These topics will be covered in the analysis of this paper.
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Industrialization: The Other Side of the Story, 2006.
An analysis of the negative impacts of industrialization on American society.
7,350 words (approx. 29.4 pages), 18 sources, MLA, £ 112.95
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This paper asks whether the progress of the industrial revolution came at a cost. The paper begins with an overview of the positive benefits of industrialization on American society. Then the paper turns to the negative fall-out. The author discusses: (1) the false notion that leisure time would increase as a result of industrialization; (2) the growing disparity between rich and poor; (3) the loss of personal fulfillment that workers had in their profession; (4) the urbanization of America; (5) an increase in materialism; and (6) the danger posed to workers by a lack of safety precautions in factories.
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The Fallacy of Leisure Time
Wealth and Poverty
The Loss of Pride
Urban Conditions
Industrialization and Education
Materialism
Safety Hazards
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"Thomas Jefferson foresaw some of the problems that could occur with an industrial society. In the early history of the United States and before industrialization had really begun, he believed that the new nation should avoid the path of industrialization because of what he said were its inherent evils. Jefferson thought that that manufacturing had a corrupting influence on society, that it created urban centers full of vice and awful living conditions. The urban class of factory worker that it would create he described as "debased by ignorance, indigence, and oppresion" (Dudley 25). Jefferson concluded that the "only way for the American society to survive in its republican form was to populate it with self-sufficient farmers who owned their own property and thus were subservient to no one" (Dudley 25). While there is no way Jefferson could have foresaw the exact impact the industrial revolution would have, positive and negative, many of his predictions would come eerily close to being fulfilled. Almost one hundred years later, W. D. Dabney, a nineteenth-century economist, argued much the same thing with one important exception, the industrial revolution was well underway. Dabney, in hindsight, stated that "before industrialization, most people lived on farms or in small communities and were largely self-sufficient in providing for their basic needs and wants through their own labor and capital - a situation which he asserts was conducive to stability, economic equality, and social contentment" (Dudley 178) One thing is certain, industrialization brought massive change. A new civilization was created, one based on the machine."
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The Industrialization of Spain, 2005.
This paper discusses the history of the industrialization of Spain from the 17th century to today.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper explains that Spain came late to the industrial age; never truly recovering from the stinging 17th century loss of its legendary naval Armada at the hands of the British fleet and, by the 1830s, having lost virtually all its colonies, it became the quintessential "stagnant power," sinking slowly from first to second rate and languishing there for centuries. The author points out that, although a limited industrial infrastructure of roads, railways and manufacturing plants was in place, industrial development lagged far behind that of the United States, France, Germany and Great Britain. The paper relates that none of the dramatic changes from industrialization, which often have proven so disruptive elsewhere, has had much impact on Spain's social fabric because ninety-nine percent of the population remain staunchly Roman Catholic and family life is still deeply rooted and a bedrock of support in times of crisis, thus, Spain refuses to be overwhelmed by the so-called hustle-and-bustle of newly urbanized life.
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Industrialization Then
Industrialization Now
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"Just like everything else seems to have become in the last twenty years or so, industrializing now would surely be much more difficult and complex than it was - even for Spain just four decades ago, though that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. For one, things are always more complicated in a democracy than a dictatorship, where one man can have (as Franco did) quick and final say over all exigencies. Assuming Franco's demise and the installation of a gently progressive regime like the one now in power, nowadays worker safety and, in Spain, worker wages and job security, would no doubt be studied and evaluated for any new manufacturing plant, highway or railroad to be built."
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Urban Economic Geography, 2008.
This paper explores neo-liberalism and its implications for the North American urban environment.
2,803 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 57.95
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The paper analyzes neo-liberalism within the context of urban economic geography, while simultaneously providing an analysis that shows its progress and impact within the North American region. The paper focuses on the economic implications of neo-liberalism and discusses how, since there are challenges to neo-liberalism, it is imperative that central themes related to the urban economic geography be analyzed. The paper includes color graphs, charts and diagrams.
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Introduction
Understanding Urban Economic Geography
Neo-liberalism and Urban Restructuring
Growth of Neo-liberalism in North America - Some Contradictions for Urban Economic Geography
Conclusion
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"The paper will provide a unique outlook on geographic thought, since it will be done with the necessary analytical tools used in the social sciences. Urban economic geography is one of the few specializations that can simultaneously analyze a complex issue such as neo-liberalism and its economic and political implications in the domestic and international realm and aspects of urban geography. The analysis will provide some insight into the spatial geographic development within the US as the issue is examined within the urban context."
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The Urbanization of the Late 19th Century America, 1972.
This paper discusses the urbanization of the late 19th century America with emphasis on population migration, European immigration, technology and city-based industries.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 38.95
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"The years following the Civil War ushered in the modern era of cities. It was during the half century between the Civil War and World War I that the move from the country to the city took place. In 1860, less than a quarter of the American population lived in a city or town; by 1890 the figure had reached a third; by 1910, nearly half.
The urbanization of late 19th century America took place at a staggering pace. Chicago, for example, doubled its population every decade but one between 1850 and 1890, growing from 30,000 to over a million in little more than a generation. Los Angeles jumped from less than 5,000 in 1860 to more than 100,000 in 1900, and Denver from nothing at all to 134,000, while Memphis with 23,000 in the earlier year exceeded 100,000 in the latter. In the nation as a whole, the proportion of people living in towns ... "
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