settlement houses
"City Beautiful" Movement
Surbabanization
The Temperance Movement addressed urban problems in the late 1800s.
The Interstate Highway System, established in the 1950s, revolutionized transportation in the United States by facilitating faster and more efficient movement of goods and people across the country. It spurred economic growth by connecting urban and rural areas, enabling interstate commerce, and fostering suburban expansion. Additionally, the highway system contributed to the rise of automobile culture, reshaping lifestyles and influencing urban planning. Overall, it significantly transformed the American landscape and economy, promoting greater mobility and accessibility.
Many African Americans moved from the rural South to the urban North.
President Johnson's administration established the Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to help low income families secure housing. The department was founded in September of 1965.
help Native Americans living in urban areas
"City Beautiful" Movement
City beautiful movement
AIM first focused on Indians' urban problems, then focused on Indians rights. Novanet
AIM first focused on Indians' urban problems, then focused on Indians' rights.
1965
Urban growth is the rate of growth of an urban population. It is different to urbanization which is the process by which there is an increase in proportion of a population living in places classified as urban: the movement from a rural to urban area.
urban to rural.
The Asian American movement was driven largely by student activists invigorated by anti-Vietnam war and black power movements. Challenging stereotypes about Asian "passivity" and rejecting labels such as "oriental," Asian American activists mobilized this new consciousness to demand an end to racist hiring practices, biased school curricula, demeaning media stereotypes, residential discrimination, and the gentrification of historically Asian American neighborhoods. And even though it was mostly a youth movement, it could be argued that the Asian American movement transformed older community institutions, created new ones, and dramatically advanced the position of Asian American power in American urban politics.
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