Suburbanisation Flashcards
Historic inhabitation of suburbs?
From medical period to nineteenth century suburbs were inhabited by the poor or minority groups
Suburbs in Europe?
Working class suburbs remain
Periphery housing estates
France- banlieues
When did the suburban revolution occur?
From 1920’s and post WW2
Quote about suburbia
“Modern suburbia is a creature of the automobile and could not live without it”
Stat on car ownership in US?
Increase of 200% from 1950 to 1980
Drivers of suburbanisation?
Automobile
Post war housing boom
Interstate highway act
Atomic attack evacuation
LA
The first true 20th century and postmodern City
Marketed as the first city in which people came freely
Solving the car in the city problem by leaving the city
‘A city of suburbs’
City of Freeways?
LA
2/3 of homes detached- 1950
1 car for every 8 residents- 1915
Growth of the suburbs?
3/4 of all new manufacturing and retail jobs created in suburbs
1970 pop of suburbs doubled and more Americans lived in suburbs than any other areas
The world of Suburbia?
Kenneth Jackson
Fits the needs of motorist rather than pedestrian
Garish signs, Large parking lots, drive in windows and throw away fast-food buildings
Catering for the motorist?
Garage became an essential part of residence Motels Drive in movie theatres Service station Out of town shopping centres
Suburbia and utopian?
The suburban ideal as the utopia of the middle class and the escape from the city A state of mind rather that a geographical location
How was the flight to the suburbs a rejection of society?
Privacy and seclusion
Celebrating family unit separated from the public domain of work and civic culture
The flight to the suburbs as a conscious rejection of the rest of society beyond the family unit
The end of suburbia?
Economic disaster for the city and the poor
Re-segregated American society
Civic institutions scattered
Technoburb?
Peripheral zones as viable socio-economic units developed along highway growth corridors
