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Title: The Growth of Suburbia


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The Growth of Suburbia
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Suburbanization
  • What does suburbanization mean?
  • The process of residential, commercial, and
    industrial growth and development beyond a
    central city
  • The movement of people out of the cities into new
    neighborhoods surrounding the cities

3
Do Now
  • Listen to the song that is playing, Little Boxes
    by Malvina Reynolds, and follow along with the
    lyrics.
  • When the song ends, record information about
    Reynolds views of suburbanization in the left
    hand column of Resource Sheet 2

4
Factors leading to Suburbanization
  • Legacy of the Depression and WWII
  • Housing shortage
  • Involvement of the federal government
  • Growth of technology

5
Legacy of the Depression and WWII
  • Economic hardships of the Great Depression lead
    Americans to cut down their spending
  • WWII brought a growth in available jobs, BUT
    rationing of goods limited the ability of
    Americans to spend the money they were earning

6
Housing Shortages
  • The Baby Boom
  • Change in housing mortgages
  • Before 10 year mortgages with 80 down payment
  • After 30 years mortgages with 10 down payment

7
G.I. Bill
  • Federal legislation which was intended to help
    veterans transition from wartime service to
    peacetime life
  • Subsidized
  • Education tuition, fees, books, and living
    expenses
  • Housing low interest loans to veterans wanting
    to buy single family homes

8
Technology
  • Automobiles became a necessity
  • This allowed people to move out of the city and
    commute to work
  • With the National Interstate and Defense Highways
    Act of 1956 road construction boomed
  • Federally funded the construction of 41,000 miles
    of roads an highways

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Examining Views on Suburbia
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  • Suburbia is becoming the most important single
    market in the country. It is the suburbanite who
    starts the mass fashions-for children,dungarees,
    vodka martinis, outdoor barbecues, functional
    furnitureAll suburbs are not alike, but they are
    more alike than different.
  • William H. Whyte, Organization man

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  • Those who lambasted suburbiatended to ignore
    several basic facts the boom in building
    energized important sectors of the economy,
    providing a good deal of employment it lessened
    the housing shortage that had diminished the
    lives of millions during the Depression and war
    and it enabled people to enjoy conveniences, such
    as modern bathrooms and kitchens, that they had
    not before.
  • - James Patterson, Grand Expectations

13
  • Levittown represented the worst vision in
    American future bland people in bland houses
    leading bland lives. The houses were physically
    similar an entire community was being made from
    a cookie cuttera multitude of uniform,
    unidentifiable houses, lined un inflexibly, at
    uniform distances on uniform roads, in a treeless
    command waste, inhabited by people of the same
    class, the same incomes, the same age group,
    witnessing the same television performances,
    eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods,
    from the same freezers, conforming in every
    outward and inward respect to the same common
    mold.
  • - Lewis Mumford, The City in History Its
    Origins, Its Transformations, and its Prospects
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