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“...By 1900 urban Americans found themselves living in a communal setting...they now turned toward the impersonal government or corporation to provide them with water and heat, sewerage and light, elevators and machine-made clothes and factory-canned goods. It was a life of interdependence accentuated by technology, rather than a life of independence assured by [rural] distance...”
Source: Robert H. Walker, “The Changing Community” The Age of Enterprise, 1865-1900, 1971
1. Is this a primary or a secondary source?
2. How does this document reveal interdependence?
3. Which words in this document reveal that the author has a negative point of view about urban