Chapter 15-2: Critical Thinking # 4

Which solution (or attempted solution) to an urban problem discussed in this section do you think had the most impact? Why?

As cities grew larger, many urban problems factored in. From difficulties with houses, transportation, water resources, sanitation, crime and fire, city governments face the problems of how to provide the people with all their needed services.

In attempt to find a solution for the problems in the cities, the greatest affect was categorized under the matter of transportation.With so much population in the cities, safe transportation was very hard to manage. The solution for transportation problems was something called mass transit. Mass transits were large systems that had been designed to carry a great amount of people on fixed routes. With fixed routes for transportation offered, people could get to their jobs and back much easier. After time, between 1873 and 1897 street cars were invented as well as electric subways.

Not only did the solutions for better transportation result in easier lives for the people and workers, but they linked areas of cities to one another. Even thought this did not expand the population in a huge factor, it did get the cities around easier and joined/connected them with their neighboring communities.