Urban Planning During Immigration Boom

You’ll need on your desk:1) Graph paper

2) Eraser3) Pencil

4) Your Collage From Yesterday Unless You

Turned It In

To Begin Your City, You Will Need the

Following:• Two Factories - 4x4• Two Apartments - 8x4

• 20 Houses - 1x1• 1 Police Station - 4x4

• One Fire Hall - 6x6• One City Hall - 8x4• Two Schools - 4x4• Unlimited Parks

Photograph from the collection of the Fenton History Center, Jamestown, NY

1880 - Your City is Growing!

Add the Following• 50 Houses - 1x1 (70 total)

• 3 Apartments - 8x4 (5 total)

• 1 School - 4x4 (3 total)

1890 - Immigrants are Racing to the United

States - Add:• 80 Houses (150 total)

• 2 Apartments (7 total)

• 2 Schools (5 total)

Photograph from the collection of the Fenton History Center, Jamestown, NY

1900 - New Technologies, New Citizens - Add:

• 60 Houses (210 total)

• 2 Apartments (9 total)

• 1 School (6 total)

• 2 Factories (4 total)

New Technologies

• The City has decided to provide running water in every tenement. This necessitates more pipe work and sewers in the apartment buildings.

• Make all apartments 9x4 or 8x5.

New Technologies

• Horseless carriages (automobiles) are replacing horse and buggies. This requires wider roads.

• All roads must be made to be at least two blocks wide

Writing Prompt

You have just experienced what it was like to be a city planner in the late 1800s and early 1900s as immigration was exploding.

1) Please now detail the problems you personally faced when confronting expanding population in your city. Where you are to overcome the issues? Why or why not?

2) Ultimately, what did you learn from today’s lesson.