Key Content:

• Industrial Society and Social Reform

• The American City

Reading:
Robert H. Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1967), Chapter 7, pp. 164-195.
Lewis Mumford, "American Architecture Today - Part I: The Search for 'Something More'," in Skyscraper : the search for an American style, 1891-1941, edited by Roger Shepheard. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003), pp. 245-250.

I. Introduction  

    1. The Problems of Industrial Society

• muckrakers

II. The Progressive Spirit

Frederick Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911)
 

III. Political Reform

Direct primary, initiative, referendum

16th and 17th Amendments
 

IV. Social Reform

Labor legislation

Railroads

Consumer Protection
 

V. Reforming the Cities
 

VI. Skyscrapers
 

VII. Modern Architects
 

VIII. The New American City
 

New York

Chicago

IX. Conclusion
 

POWERPOINT

	A/P Ian Gordon	History	American Studies	NUS