Suburbanization ► Three “Chapters” ► 1850 – 1945 – “romantic suburbs” ► 1945 – 1985 – “mass suburbanization” ► 1985 – present – the rise of the Megaburb;

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Suburbanization ► Three “Chapters” ► 1850 – 1945 – “romantic suburbs” ► 1945 – 1985 – “mass suburbanization” ► 1985 – present – the rise of the Megaburb; “edge city”; urbanization of the suburbs

Romantic Suburbs ► Rail technology allowed a select few to separate home from work ► Primarily just the elite, a very small scale phenomena ► “bedroom suburbs”; primarily residential ► Residential “retreats” from the chaotic, industrial city ► Designed around “romantic principles”

Riverside, IL.

Mass Suburbanization: After 1945 ► The Middle-class, and even the working- class suburbanizes ► Levittown, NY

Why the “levittownization” of American cities? ► 1. Pent-up demand for housing ► 2. returning vets ► 3. economic boom ► 4. new building technologies ► 5. consolidation in the development industry ► 6. much higher rates of automobile ownership ► 7. building of the freeway network (the I-system, after 1946) ► 8: the role of the federal government  VA/FHA loans and “redlining”  Freeway construction

The Rise of the “Megaburb”: present ► Jobs follow the people to the suburbs ► Suburbs are no longer “bedroom communities”; rather they are essentially independent of the central city ► The rise of the “edge city” suburban downtown, or suburban cluster ► traffic congestion (and job growth!) is often more intense in suburbs than in central city ► Suburbs are also much more socially diverse than in previous eras.

Itasca, IL.

Schaumburg, IL.

Oak Brook, IL.

Naperville, IL.

Special types of new suburbs ► The new immigrant suburb  Monterey Park, CA ► The middle-class African-American suburb  Princes George, MD ► The mostly “job and retail” suburb  Elk Grove Village, IL ► The declining “inner-ring” suburb  West Allis, WI

Consequences of Mass Suburbanization ► The Fiscal health of the central cities  Population declines = less tax money ► Abandonment in certain areas  In worst case scenarios, only the poorest of the poor left behind  Tax-service inequities ► Schools ► Roads/fire/police/libraries/other services

► Environmental Consequences  Sprawl  Emissions  Excessive pavement  Long commutes  Automobile dependency  Traffic jams/idle engines

► Socio-cultural?  Schools  Re-segregation  Exposure to diversity

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