INDUSTRIALIZATION AND URBAN TRANSFORMATION

Decentralized of industries

• Camden manufacturers began gradually closing their factories and moving out of the city.

• The new work shipbuilding cooperation dropped abruptly from a height of 47000 during the war and shut down entirely.

• Immediately Camden was dramatically affected by its economic and social position with loss of jobs.

Impacts

• Sharps decline in population numbers.

• Civic unrest and crime became common.

• The unemployment rate was more than twice the state average

• Almost half of Camden’s inhabitants lived below the poverty line.

• row houses built for workers in the 1930s that were architecturally unique were all abandoned or torn down.

• The highest crime rate in the united states in 2012 Camden had 2500 violent crimes for every 10000 people which is 560 percent higher than the national average.