My name is Clarissa and i am in Mr. Sal’s 9th period 20th century class. In the late 1800s only 20 percent of the people in the United States lived in towns or cities. By 1900 this percentage had doubled. The growth of cities is called urbanization. Urbanization is necessaraly not a bad thing unless it happens so rapidly that it cuases problems, like it did in the 18-1900s. Some of the problems caused by urbanization are overcrowding and not enough jobs.

Over crowding was a big problem. The apartments in New York city in 1910 had about 1.9 people per room living in them. Considewring the size of the rooms that was alot of people. As the cities became more croweded the suburbs were created. The Suburbs are the the outer part of the cities. The comunities begain to grow and blossome and the cities become less crowded.

Another of the resons cities had the problem of urbanization is beacuse most people came to the city looking for a job. With people coming into the city looking for jobs it helped creat the problem of over crowding. In order to creat more job opertunities new factories were oppend. The factories made it so the people in rural areas and the city could get jobs.

In all urbanizaton was a problem in the 20th century. It created many of problems. Some problems were solved and some we still have today.