Term Paper

Power Point Slides

• Intro. to Newark
• Skyscrapers in NYC
• Skyscraper Photos
• European Immigration and Newark
• Tables from Hatton and Williamson and Collins
• Newark area census maps
• Newark's Economy at turn of 20th Century
• Clem Price and the Black Migration to Newark
• Sternlieb & Burchell and Housing Abandonment
• Newark's Present and Future

Other slides

Other Course Documents and Discussion Questions

• Schelling Model Java Applet
• NY Times Article on Zoning in Newark, Jan. 4, 1920
• NY Times Article on Industrial Growth in Newark, April 17, 1927

Discussion Questions

• Labor in Preindustrial U.S.
• Agglomeration Economies
• Newark's Industrialization, 1870-1910
• Rise of the CBD and Skyscrapers
• Transportation Innovations
• Migration
• Schelling Model and Newark in the early 20th C.

Websites

• Rutgers University Library Website on Newark Sources and Data

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