... society began in the cities. New mechanical inventions and scientific discoveries spurred on a changing social order and caused a migration from agrarian life in the countryside to the creation of a mass urban society (Kagan 766). New railroads, canals and roads let people leave their birthplace much more easily and migrate (Kagan 768). By mid eighteenth century half the population of England already ... for a short time there was a constant danger of unemployment and very little security that could send them plummeting into oblivion at any moment. Urban life was "governed by the regime...

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... ? We may fin the answers in some scientific movies. Skyscrapers are crowed everywhere. There is no road and street because common car has been instead of certain kind of flying machine aero car. People's life has expanded into aerial space. The whole city is equipped with high technology, so on and so forth. However, the issue is this kind of movies ... bases for the construction of modernization. Therefore, the development of city takes an important part in the construction of modernization. It has the leading role in social and economic development. Urban planning plays a significant r...

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... classic silent film of the futuristic city of metropolis and its mechanized society is possible more powerful to day then when it was released, at depicting the dehumanization of centralized urban cites. Set in the year 2000, there are two distinctive class divisions in the megalopolis of metropolis: the toiling labor force dwelling underneath the conurbation in slums toiling away in ... a vain effort to keep the machine going, working ten hour days every day but never getting ahead. While the upper class surface dwellers reside in luxurious comfort, with out a care in the world. Presid...

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... find a place to live and to fit in with the new society. In some ways Hull House "provided an alternative to the saloon as a gathering place and to the political machine as giver of favors."" Population growth in the nation, between the time of the Civil War and World War I, changed the life of Jane Addams. Rapid industrialization and urbanization transformed ... of work from farm and household to the businesses and workplaces. In the process, technology opened new options. In addition, "the national population doubled between 1860 and 1910, but the urban population doubled every decade...

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