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A 9 page overview of the factors entering into urban design during and immediately following the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain and in the United States. The contention is presented that while Britain felt the need to move beyond the grid system which had characterized early urban design, America did not have the same space constraints nor the immediate need to convey the sense of space and thus continued to perpetuate the grid. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Urban development has varied throughout history both according to time and according to region. Our concept of urban development varies as well according to our own culture. The
most basic of separations between world cultures is East and West. This separation is both geographic and biological with those representatives of the Eastern cultures being comprised primarily of
peoples of Asian descent and those of Western cultures being composed primarily of peoples of European descent. There have been many similarities in the urban development which occurred in
these two broad regions. even more interesting, however, is the similarities that have occurred between Great Britain and the United States. Both of these regions belong to the
broad classification of Western Civilization, in fact one sprang largely from the other. Despite the fact that these countries are separated by thousands of miles and even the ocean
itself, they share many similarities in the manner in which their cities have evolved over time. These similarities are of particular interest when we consider the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, the time period following the periods of rapid industrial expansion which characterized these countries. These periods were characterized by attempts to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more
pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerably more strongly than would the young United States who was essentially unimpeded by the land constraints which characterized Europe.
Interestingly, the time periods characterizing the aesthetics of urban design noted above were separated by almost a century between the U.S.
and Great Britain. This is understandable given that Great Britain was the first country to experience the Industrial Revolution. Although there are numerous speculation, one of the most
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