Hey, it’s Amanda from Sal’s period 9 20th Century class. For this blog, I chose the topic of urban growth. Urban growth is basically when jobs open in one place, and all the people congregate there in order to work and make money. This helped quite a lot of families, but it helped the population a bit too much. When all the jobs are in one spot, all the people desire to live as close as they can to that one spot; this ended up causing overpopulation. Urban growth was both a good thing and a bad thing.
During the time that urban growth was at its highest, a lot of the transportation methods were produced. The government did this in order to limit the population of the main cities so that people could still work there, but not have the need to live so close. This helped the issue of overpopulation greatly.