“When Cities Went Electric”
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1 min readDec 17, 2018
“Electricity makes it more possible for cities to become much livelier — people could be out and about in a way that just wasn’t true if you were living in rural America. Cities became much more nocturnal places than the countryside: This entire world of nightlife was possible. The streets were lit. The interiors of buildings were lit.
For the majority of people who worked during the day, the fact that things could be lit up at night meant you had this whole additional period of leisure that you otherwise really wouldn’t have.
Electricity also meant you could have elevators and thus much taller buildings, and the density of cities begins to change.”
