Jacob Riis And Stanford White Analysis

The clash between the wealthy-class and the imminent growing presence of poor, hopeless immigrants is prominent from the interaction between Jacob Riis and Stanford White. Jacob Riis is a newspaper reporter and reformer who writes about the need of housing for the poor, while Stanford White is a renowned, affluent architect. There was a clear distinction between each of the two’s vision. Jacob Riis was motivated with the immigrant’s condition from the grim sight he saw happening. “Children died of mild colds or slight rashes. Children died on beds made from two kitchen chairs pushed together” (10). The image of children dying invokes sentiment, because there is nothing more saddening than children dying. While Stanford White “had a vision