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Why did railroad companies mass produce cities?
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Railroads founded hundreds of nearly identical towns in the American west. Why? Watch over 2,400 documentaries with Curiosity Stream for free for a month by signing up at http://curiositystream.com/citybeautiful and using the code, "citybeautiful" at checkout.
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Resources:
This video was synthesized from a few key sources:
- Reps, J. W. (1965). The making of urban America: a history of city planning in the United States.
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24467929.pdf?casa_token=GVSBCMJK4rEAAAAA:Bw_HCcAsy2OI4h19LJd9fZEd4rK8bpYV4t4EbHh2aHCk9q7qbKeY8ayH2IzQyXYcl_aIoP5YXFnW3ErUKSXlMzHegFARYi-bVfNByVpC1yF4h-8w3Q
- https://www.genealogyjourney.net/federal-land-grants-to-railroads-checkerboarding/
- http://ridingtherails.org/
Produced by Dave Amos in sunny San Luis Obispo, California.
Edited by Ryan Alva in Los Angeles, California.
Audio by Eric Schneider in cloudy Cleveland, Ohio.
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