What technological and economic factors combined to lead to the explosive growth of american cities at this time?

A confluence of factors rendered city life more attractive and feasible at the late nineteenth century.

Technology including electricity and telecommunications encouraged companies to grow and expand in towns, and skyscrapers allowed comparatively small geographical areas to continue to grow.

The growing need for workers has prompted a large influx of unemployed people both from the United States ' rural areas and Eastern and Southern Europe.

Urban housing, and also infrastructure including transportation and hygiene, has increased accordingly, while cities have struggled to cope with the rising demand.

Overall, technological advancements and a booming population contributed to American cities rising as never before.

workers should be given a fair share of the wealth their work creates

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the industrial development of cities in the ruhr area in the nineteenth century is described. the research was based on english and german language sources. several factors that shaped growth and paths of the cities were categorized and analyzed. they are locations, resources, traditions, entrepreneurs, and technological developments. locations and resources were the most important among them; other factors may be regarded as consequences from locations and resources. among the cities, bochum, essen, gelsenkirchen, and dortmund had the richest resources and most favorable locations in the transportation network and grew to be the largest cities in the ruhr area near the end of the nineteenth century. riverside location was also a favorable factor for the development, as shown in the development of duisburg on the confluence of rhine and ruhr. resource distribution can explain the rise of textile industry, metallurgical industry, and coal and iron industries, and the northward progression of the mining industry. tradition was an important factor for cities such as krefeld, barmen, elberfeld, solingen, and remscheid, which experienced development based on their traditions through the nineteenth century. various entrepreneurs exerted influences within and beyond the local level over the ruhr area. technological development stimulated the northward progression of the mining industry and the deep connection between the coal and the iron industries.