Chapter 19 notes A new urban environment Beginning in the 1880s the city was in a revolution of galls and steel as new skyscraper buildings appeared in the city and streetcars helped to create the suburbs -Steel allowed these buildings to be built to great heights as it was much stronger than iron and weighed less than masonry which -electric elevators sped people up and down the buildings Street cars extended the reach of the cities radius as they no longer were walking cities -now workers lived outside the urban zone and came to work on elevated trains and brought about commuting to work -the middle class moved farther and farther away from the city the new immigrants moved in to the urban areas abandoned by them. Tenements