A new class system was created: working class, middle class, upper class. Factory owners, inventors and businessmen became insanely rich and powerful.
Traders and the more wealthy became factory owners. The IR and urbanization fundamentally changed people and who they were. It may not be the only cause, but it is a significant one, and if we want to attempt to leave a world for our kids and the future generations, it is our duty to understand ourselves and our capabilities, as much as we can. Did this all come from factories being built. It would create a new global order and structure, which we are still attempting to organize in a way that minimizes conflict, while promoting cooperation. It would set the stage for WW2, which led to millions and millions of deaths. WW1 would lead to the rise of communism in China, and its civil war in 1949. It would also lead to many of our greatest threats: our current environmental crisis, and our first global conflict-World War 1. Technological development and discovery, travel and luxury, education and medicine, and so much more. It would lead to many of our greatest moments and achievements as a civilization. The IR is essentially the final stop on the road to the modern world. There are many important moments in our development as a society: the printing press, the discovery of germs, the development of mathematics, exploration, gunpowder, the movement away from superstition and towards science and reason. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilization works its miracles and civilized man is turned almost into a savage.” " As we can see, the benefits that the IR had provided definitely depended on who you were and your class. “From this foul Drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilize the whole world. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French traveler and writer, visited Manchester in 1835 and commented on the environmental hazards. On the whole, working-class neighborhoods were bleak, crowded, dirty, and polluted.
As one writer noted: "Despite the growth in wealth and industry, urbanization also had some negative effects. It was said that the "sun can never set on the British Empire." Cities became big, busy and rich, but they also created major issues such as pollution, disease and slums.
England quickly created the largest empire the world had ever seen. First, all these cities and factories made people and countries very rich and powerful. With all these factories, people started to migrate from the countryside for work and it had important and lasting effects. The creation of factories made already existing cities much larger, and also created major cities in new places. By the year 1920, the majority of people lived in cities. 22 -16, p.Around the year 1800, 80% of people lived in rural areas on farms. SOLUTIONS Smart Growth Tools Limits and Regulations Protection Urban growth boundaries Greenbelts around cities Preserve existing open space Buy new open space Buy development rights that prohibit certain types of development on land parcels Public review of new development Taxes Zoning Tax land, not buildings Tax land on value of actual use (such as forest and agriculture) instead of on highest value as developed land Limit building permits Encourage mixed use of housing and small businesses Concentrate development along mass transportation routes Tax Breaks Planning For owners agreeing not to allow certain types of development (conservation easements) For cleaning up and developing abandoned urban sites (brownfields) Ecological land-use planning Revitalization and New Growth Environmental impact analysis Revitalize existing towns and cities Integrated regional planning Build well-planned new towns and villages within cities Promote high-density cluster housing developments State and national planning Fig.