Pick one of the following pairs of cities:
– Jersey City and Houston
– Chicago and Phoenix
– Dallas and Miami
– Seattle and Dallas
– Nashville and Detroit
-Jacksonville and San Francisco
Write a research paper and compare the urban development of the two cities assigned by address some of the following questions:
– How and why did these cities emerge in the United States?
– How did these cities look like, smell like, and feel like over time?
– How and why did urban populations change in these two cities?
– How are these cities today the products of their historical pasts?
Make sure you examine the relationships between cities and migration and immigration, while also comparing the ways these massive changes occurred in urban and suburban life in these cities.
Focusing on the similarities and differences on the social, environmental, demographic, and cultural change these cities have encountered.
You can use the US Census Bureau to obtain information on these cities.
https://www.census.gov/Links to an external site.
You can also use scholarly journals, newspapers and magazine articles on your cities.
