| We will explore key relationships of power, class, and ethnicity, in addition to problems like sprawl, pollution, and environmental racism. We take a thematic approach, exploring the following broad topics: Part I, how society used natural resources like water and timber to build large cities during the industrial revolution; Part II, how burgeoning urban areas transformed their surroundings, leading to smoky skies, polluted canals, and dense housing; Part III, how different social and political groups have thought about and tried to improve the urban environment, reacting to issues like pollution, disease, and natural disasters. |
