Decentralization and Technology
I am going to discuss how transportation has caused the decentralization of cities and what the social consequences have been.First the definition of decentralization is to bring about the redistribution of urban population and industry to suburban areas. Decentralization can be viewed as a direct result of increases in transportation. Transportation includes cars, buses, trains or any other types of mass transit. And with that you get the need for subway systems, highway systems, and rail systems. A Metropolis is defined as a large city or urbanized area, including adjacent suburbs and towns. Our current metropolitan areas have been created by the invention of mass transit, automobiles and also the federal funding for interstate highways. The history of mass transportation is intimately connected to industrialization, urbanization, and the separation of residence from workplace. By the beginning of the 20th cent., London, New York, Boston, Paris, Budapest, and other major cities had fixed-rail subway systems by the 1920s buses were being used. In the 1920s the Bureau of Public Roads was authorized by the Federal Highway Act of 1921 to provide funding to help sta
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Technology Mass, Tariffs Trade, Park Michigan, , Project History--a, Highway Act, Schools People, Fossil Fuels, Economic Activities, Reform Urban, mass transit, people move, interstate highways, fossil fuels, social consequences, percent people, move cities, major cities, rail systems, creation highways,
Approximate Word count = 1276
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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