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The Row House Neighborhoods of Oak Lane Jon Kaufman
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Typical Post-WWII Row House Block Houses have front lawns Street is comparatively wide Houses continue ABA pattern
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Garages in back of every house Houses accessible from back through common driveway Developers expected every family to have a car, defining the area as suburban Different style, not as wide “Airlight” floor plan
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Pre-WWII Style Post-WWII Style The area was a so called “streetcar suburb” before WWII with some development. After the war, it exploded as an “automobile suburb.”
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Racial issues of the city Exhibited in Oak Lane The Federal Housing Administration had an official policy of residential segregation, “the presence of incompatible racial elements results in a lowering of the rating, often to the point of rejection,” until 1948 Supreme Court decision. Oak Lane was majority white until the 1970’s. 2000 data: 72.1% African-American 11.6% White 6.4% Asian 3.4% 2 or more races 6.4% “other”
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