Jackson explores his subject through a variety of lenses, including economics, land and transportation studies, psychology, sociology, and, of course, history.
The result is an all-encompassing narrative that chronicles something uniquely American: the suburban experience. The volume opens with an introduction in which Jackson names the four components that comprise suburban life.
This is a theme that is expounded upon throughout the rest of the book. First, the suburbs must be functional, providing non-acreage residential options with a certain degree of comfort and convenience.
Second, they must appeal to middle- and upper-class homebuyers, people for whom escaping urban life is a realistic goal. Third, suburbs must have an element of separation that divides the dweller's home and work lives; in other words, individuals must travel to reach their place of employment. Finally, population density must be lower, thereby creating a more rural—but not too rural—atmosphere.
Jackson also posits the theory that it is actually the elite classes, not the middle or working classes, that first make the migration to the suburbs, and middle-income folks only follow suit as a means of escaping the burden of skyrocketing city taxes.
The cities suburbanizattion seen as dangerous, crime-infested rcabgrass, while the suburbs were seen as safe places to live and raise a family, leading to a social trend known in some parts of the world as white flight. Another learning I took away from this book was that suburbanization was not solely a North American problem or reality. Restrictive covenants and discriminatory tax and lending policies by the local and federal government have combined to polarize the inner from the outer city along racial lines.
They began developing in the U. Choose your country or region Close. The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation 9. As Americans begin to rebuild their cities and the civilization which they foster, this look back at what caused their disintegration will prove most helpful.
In understanding how siburbanization earth American cities developed as they statds, there is probably no better place to start than this book. Federal housing aid and tax deductions to individuals and infrastructural spending have overwhelmingly favored new suburban communities and outward development. Second, the willingness to embrace new technologies, such as transportation, allowed for rapid change and innovation. Cornering the Market Susan V.
Rather, suburbanization arrived as a result of two factors: The simplest explanation, however, is that they ths. Additionally, the traditional European city had similar forms cabgrass economic segregation as American cities—though the segregation was topographically in reverse, with the poor being shunned to the perimeter in the European model, and to the core in the American model. While until the midth century cities were able by state law or the approval of state legislators, to annex the territory around their periphery, as minority communities sought political and social empowerment, white suburbs increasingly fought to remain separate.
The central problem tbe surburbanization was not the suburbs themselves, but rather rcabgrass human tendency to ignore the social implications that such divides could create. After the Second World War, the need for housing presented another problem for the federal government and construction industry also responded by building up suburban areas rather than revitalizing urban areas.
The outcome of these various attempts failed to live up to expectations, but the HOLC did provide the advantage of uniform loan payments for home purchases with the possibility of loan renewals. Suburbs have existed as a concept in England since the sixteenth century. First, the built environment and abundant land allowed for a uniquely American character and physical and political development. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. He argues that this is not a new phenomena, but goes back to the nineteenth century.
The invention of motor cars only exacerbated the decline of rail trolley transports. It is at its core a data book, which might be another word for boring. Combining fhe history with economic and architectural history, the book discusses suburban communities crabgrrass every section of the country as well as making comparisons with Europe and Japan.
He does not do so to an overbearing degree, and the book does not turn into a screed or polemic. Why was the traditional urban form abandoned for the suburbs to the degree th For thousands of unied, people lived in either the country or the city, but with the coming of the industrial revolution that changed, and especially in America. Jackson disabused me of zuburbanization notion. There comes a comment about the ghettoization of public housing that resulted because of a laudable unwillingness to make property rights insecure to put public housing in areas where its residents were not wanted 12a look at the baby boom and the age of the subdivision 13the drive-in culture of contemporary America 14some whining about the loss of community in metropolitan American 15and some stunningly false prophecies about the revitalization of the hipster urban ideal and the end of suburbs Great read, essential American knowledge.
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