Abstract
The Founding Fathers’ United States was a narrow strip of land along the Atlantic Ocean, an agrarian country whose cities were centers of trade, not industry. While that began to change soon after the end of the Revolution, as the Northwest Ordinance opened up vast tracts of the Midwest to settlement, for years western places like Pittsburgh, Detroit, or Cincinnati were small villages, barely more than fortified outposts, situated along rivers and surrounded by forests still largely populated by long-established Native American peoples. As late as 1820, more people lived on the island of Nantucket than in the city of Pittsburgh.
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Mallach, A. (2018). The Rise and Fall of the American Industrial City. In: The Divided City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-782-7_2
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