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The 19th century witnessed a rapid rise of urbanization in the United States. Factors such as advancements in transportation, industrialization, trade, immigration, and social changes all played a significant role in this urban growth.
Mid-19th c Urban America: The Growth of the American City. This Map set explores the interconnected ways that industrialization, transportation innovations, and westward expansion shaped the growth of cities throughout the United States in the Antebellum Period. Created by Kim Frederick, History Teacher, Concord Academy.
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The invention of new technologies, such as the steam engine and telegraph, revolutionized transportation and communication, leading to the rise of factories and the growth of cities. This resulted in significant urbanization and the emergence of a new social and economic order.
Thus, we argue and demonstrate that the novel HISDAC-US data provide an unprecedented opportunity to study and understand long-term urbanization and settlement processes at fine spatial and temporal granularity from the beginning of the 19th century to today.
- Stefan Leyk, Johannes H. Uhl, Dylan S. Connor, Anna E. Braswell, Anna E. Braswell, Nathan Mietkiewic...
- 2020
America’s Urban Transition. The Urban Transition Historical GIS Project is directed by John Logan, Professor of Sociology at Brown University. It uses historical census data to document the state of U.S. cities from the end of the 19th Century into the early 20th Century.
Outside of Europe, only a tiny fraction of the world's populations had lived in cities at the start of the nineteenth century, but in many nations the urban proportion grew into impressive minorities—to select three South American examples: 30 percent in Uruguay, 28 percent in Argentina, and 17 percent in Chile.
