report #3
The difference between two maps of the university district in 19th and 20th century indicates that there was no big change in landscape, while it is very flat according to the map. However, the map of the railroads did tell that more railroads and more accomplished highways were built over the beginning of 20th century. There were changes about the traffic. Those changes were gradual but also sudden because there was so few traffic in the 19th century compared to 1930. This could happen because the University of Washington moved from Capitol Hill to the University district.
According to the newspaper Seattle Daily published in 1980 Jan 12, “the forerunner of the University District was a tiny village called Brooklyn” with “thick timber grew down to the water”. Then, the University of Washington has been moved here. By 1980, the district’s major industry “ivory-tower Boeing, was the University of Washington, which brought 53000 students, faculty, tourist every day and with annual budget of 400 million dollars.” (Don Ducan, January 12th 1980). However, before the University of Washington moved, the district was just a tiny village. This was a schooling-type of change. This big change made the resident change from the village people to a big population of students. The arrival of University of Washington definitely was one of the crucial events happened to the University District
(revised addition: UW moved around the University Districy in 1890s. Currently, All the apartments in my block are relatively more expensive and new compare to the apartments that was built earlier. Those who live in my block have realtively higher income, and some of them are students with better support from their family, some of them are employees who have a high income. Even though the arrival of UW had brought a huge number of student residents in the since a hundred years ago, recent development of the high-tech companies around Seattle had made more higher-income people around the UW, and to be the resident there. Thus, it is a trend that the newer buildings around the UD are better in condition and more expensive)