The Suburb Reader Summary

In the book, “The Suburb Reader” by Becky W. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, while reading chapter 9, Postwar America, there were many things that got my attention while reading it. This chapter talks about how there was many Americans that move from the city to the suburban areas during that Great Depression and the World War II because of the economy status during this time. These wars made the housing shortage in a very crisis levels. During this time because of the need that all these Americans were facing, many of them needed it to live in hard conditions. For instance, “Millions of families were force to double up, while others found makeshift, grain bins, and converted chicken coops.” These were many of the reasons of why the Americans made a big change by moving from the city to the suburban areas. …show more content…
The most affected are the citizens. Since the need was really noticed, the federal government develops programs which one of the main focuses was to build new homes and help then to reestablish in suburban areas. At the same time this also brought more economical difficulties. To be able to build new project homes is needed design, planning and land development. For example, “Their impact was felt first and foremost in skyrocketing housing production. Whereas only 142,000 housing units were built nationwide in 1944, just two years later builders were hammering up over a million homes annually, 1.9 million by decade’s end.” This demonstrates that the majority of the Americans were really needed of a new home after the Great Depression and World War