How did the city of Dallas develop spatially?
Fiffick: In 1839, there was a gentleman who settled on the Trinity River, which transects the city of Dallas right at downtown, and he charged people who crossed the Trinity. The city started and grew up around from there. Dallas . If you look at a map, we are part of a large “metroplex,” where Dallas and Fort Worth are the two main cities. But there are also other cities that we share common boundaries with and common environmental issues and initiatives. Cooper: After the Civil War, the railroad came through in 1872. That’s really when Dallas became a huge transportation hub to the west. Things really started to roll, literally, when the railroad came through. Tare: Texas, in general, is one of the biggest transportation heads. It has the largest number of railroad miles of any state in the country. Texas, and particularly North Texas , became a crossroads for transportation and for goods & commerce in the United States . One example is the huge old Sears, Roebuck & Company warehouse
