Eastern Suburbs

In the United States, rapid suburbanization has caused a substantial spatial mismatch of jobs and housing. And the growing distance between people and jobs in U.S. metropolitan areas has a negative effect on traffic flow. This phenomenon has resulted in problems such as inefficient energy consumptions, pollutions, and congestion. Urban and transportation planners and policy makers have concerned this adverse effect from the urban growth patterns. Particularly, scholars have begun to consider its…

Levittown began to spring up and homes were purchased almost as quickly. Loan programs formerly established by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration cultivated the development of single-family, detached homes in these new suburbs. But even the conclusion of the war couldn’t do as much to bolster the progression of sprawl as much as President Dwight Eisenhower’s signing of National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which launched a 41,000-mile interstate…

Rebecca Solnit, the author criticizes both humans and suburbs for the lack of appreciation for walking. She strongly believes that the human mind will become unimaginative if walking continues to be devalued by our society. It was only a couple of decades ago when “walking was a sort of sacrament and a routine recreation”. However, due to the formation and influence of automobiles and suburbs, the activity now has a negative connotation. Suburbs are built partly to accommodate cars, which in…

Map analysis is to explain the details and characteristics of the map and tell exactly what type of map it is. There are several different types of maps; the type of map I chosen to analyze is a thematic map of Kentucky. I chose the state of Kentucky because that is half of my heritage. My Momma is from Kentucky and that is where the entire side of my Momma’s family is from and currently live. The map I chose shows in great detail of the highways and interstates. It also shows the boundary of…

One might take for granted, the safety of suburbia. I was led to believe by my parents that in "a neighborhood like this," I would be perfectly safe. In the 7th grade, I had to take the bus that dropped me off quite a ways away from my house, meaning that I had to walk quite the distance to my house. It wasn't a major problem, just a minor inconvenience at best. The main reason I took this specific route was to save some minutes sleeping in the early mornings, but I digress. So around 3 weeks…

This paper highlighted things that I had not thought about prior to this. However, after reading the research I can see now where environmental racialization is a factor. Subsequently, it’s not just a phenomenon present only in the Toronto. I feel it is the root of many cities that I have travelled to in Southern Ontario, and in America as well. When Scarborough was developed I was not around. However, if I were privy to initial planning documentation, I wonder if the developers ask for…

In “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” Georg Simmel emphasizes on seven characteristics of urban life; one of the characteristics is an eccentricity which derives from an effort to make “oneself noticeable.” The eccentricity is a continuously occurring theme in the modern, urban literature; “The Old House at Home” and “Los Angeles Notebook” approach this issue in different ways. While Joseph Mitchell shows ‘eccentricities’ that attract distinct groups of people in “The Old House at Home,” Joan…

Since its inception America has been viewed as a land of opportunity and a land of freedom, a land in which anyone can make it big and achieve their wildest dreams. Many have come to America’s shores in search of this prosperity, some have succeeded and some have failed. The cycle of people trying and failing to achieve their American Dream is one that has disenfranchised some, however this issue has existed in the past as it does in the present. For example, Arthur Miller’s Death of Salesman…

planning issues in general because this act cost cities more to prepare lands for credential development. One of the major characters of the Urban Sprawl is low density, it also represents the American dream of owning a single-family house in the suburbs that include a backyard, and a car garage most of the time. Most of the sprawls are located out of the city boundary, which is an area that is unauthorized, and unplanned areas which is costing cities a lot in the…

Urban refers to the built up space of a central city and its suburbs. It has a lack of agricultural area and is distinctly non-rural. Urban geography has four subfields that will be discussed in this summary. The first is the history of urbanization. Next, is intraurban geography, followed by interurban geography. The final subfield is urban planning and policy. Why do people live in cities and when did they start? Before urbanization, people where clustered in agricultural villages and were…