Public Administration History of Urban Discussion Chapter

One demand is to supply adequate fresh water. Insufficient fresh water for drinking, sewage treatment and sewage discharge are frequent issues that arise as the population increases. Augmented amounts of air pollution, water pollution, soil contamination and noise pollution are also issues faced by city governments. Another issue is that of high infant and child mortality rates. These rates are frequently caused by deficiency. There is also an augmented possibility of the appearance of new plagues and pandemics. For a lot of ecological and societal reasons, including congested living situations, undernourishment and insufficient, unreachable, or missing health care; the underprivileged are more likely to be exposed to communicable diseases (Devaney, 2010).

What steps did city governments take to help deal with new demand resulting from the influx in population?

In the late nineteenth century, municipal governments frequently failed to meet the needs of their constituents. Because of this urban planning began to be seen. By about 1910 cities had the thoughts of an innermost business district, zoning, an organization of parks and parkways, and planning roads in order to permit circulation which included the first highways.These strategies were very triumphant and the value of innermost property went up and consequently so did the tax base. Another thing that was done was to try and combat poverty in order to fight starvation and insufficient and non-existent health care. Programs were also put into place to help fight air pollution and water pollution in order to safeguard the citizens that lived in the cities. All steps that were taken by the city were done so in order to improve the overall circumstances that developed within cities due to population growth (Rothman Chapter 1, 2010).

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Devaney, Erik. (2010). The Effects of Population Density on Individuals. Retrieved March 8,

2011, from Web site: http://www.ehow.com/list_7206055_effects-population-density-individuals.html

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http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/PamMack/lec124/rothman1.html.....