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As I was reading the prologue of the book Natures Metropolis by Cronon he starts by recalling his first encounter with The City. The fact that he saw the way Chicago was becoming an urban city but everything outside that city was rural (Cronon 7). Also that he mentions that he only got a small glimpse when passing by they bad living neighborhoods that was a place that nobody wanted to live in but unfortunately many did in the nineteenth century (Cronon 6). Cronon wrote the book to in a way to help understand how the city and the country because a tight system in which helped understand the city’s place in nature by using a series of historical journey’s. (Cronon 8) The makeover that Chicago went through was a historically needed to help put america forward. Before the factories their was vast lands of “free” land that was up to be used. The location that it was in was an advantage because they had a water source that close by (Cronon 55-56). When times were using and expansion started along with the industrialization of america Chicago became a part of it. Building and factories were being made and their were employees being worked in horrible conditions (Cronon 58-60). From that point on Chicago stopped being rural instead it was morphing into a urban city. Everything that we thing of today as a city was so different in the nineteenth century. As a brand new city everything was horrible such as the living conditions, drainage, streets, and etc. (Cronon 58-60). However that did not stop the flourishing city of become on the greatest city in America. As @ jessicak mentioned that ” History has constructed us to think how we do today.” Which ties in perfectly when discuss a city like Chicago because it helps understand a different time period and how it came to be but also when I think about Chicago as a great industrial place with many skyscrapers and buildings that it looks so crowded.
