Modernity

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Modernity Cities the 20th Century City

• Intro
• Canadian American Cities Compared
• Urban Development to World War II
• Suburbs White Flight

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Canadian vs. American

• Higher density, less sprawl
• Less poverty
• More Government
• Larger of population

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Urban Structure

• Streetcars
• Road network
• Streetcars eclipsed by auto, mid-20th c.
• Pattullo Bridge (1937)
• Lions Gate Bridge (1938)
• Massey Tunnel (1960s)
• Port Mann Bridge (1960s)

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IV. Neighbourhoods

• Early Development
• City of homes
• Edwardian/early Victorian styles (pre-1910)
• Arts Crafts
• Utilitarian structures

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• Shape Texture of Settlement
• center of society British
• Strathcona multi-ethnic (anglo, eastern Europe,
  Jews, Scots, Italians, Chinese, Japanese)
• reception area

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III. The shape and texture of settlement in early
Vancouver
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• Shape/Texture Settlement
• West End - elite
• early streetcar suburbs -- Mount Pleasant,
  Fairview, Kitsilano

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Immigrants from India

• Sikh male lumber workers
• 5,000 between 1905-8
• Kits, Fraser River, near sawmills

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Chinese in Vancouver

• sojourners
• 3,000 in Vancouver by early 20th century
• MaleFemale 401
• work laundries, domestic work, manual labour (at
  lower wages)

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Early Detroit

• 1825 Erie Canal Commercial
• 1900 285,000
• Auto Industry
• Henry Ford Model T (500,000 by 1915)
• Highland Park Plant, 1910
• River Rouge Complex

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Detroit, 1940
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Detroit Before World War II

• Great Migration
• 41,000 African-Americans (1910)
• 300,000 (1950)
• Paradise Valley
• A City of Homes

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III. Corporate Suburbs

• Characteristics
• built by large builders to common plans
• guaranteed mortgages
• middle-class
• residential
• highly gendered
• curving streets, single-family homes, big yard
• elementary schools, parks

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III. Corporate Suburbs

• Why?
• Post-war era
• housing shortage
• pent-up demand
• booming economy
• more cars

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III. Corporate Suburbs

• Why?
• The State
• encourages, supports large builders
• guaranteed, long-term mortgages
• standardized regs
• National Housing Act (NHA) (1938)
• Central (Canada) Mortgage Housing Corporation
  (1946)

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III. Corporate Suburbs

• Why?
• Transportation
• bridges, tunnels, highways
• space, quiet, privacy, modern living

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Suburban Flight

• Federal Housing Administration
• Out-migration
• 12th Street Riots
• 1,849,568 (1950) to 886,675 (2001)
• Urban prairie

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Highland Park
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