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In the new cities of the 1800s, streetcars were to the suburbs and residential neighborhoods as glass and steel were to

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Scyscrapers.

Streetcars made growth of suburbs possible (otherwise people wouldn't settle so far from center, where they were working). Steel and glass had a similar effect on scyscrapers - it made their construction possible.
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