Eastern Suburbs

The United States witnessed a shift from an agricultural economy and culture to one shaped by industrialization and urban growth. Before the shift the United States was just a small group of states. With the growth in population and advances in technology people in these states thought it would be better if they moved out west for a better life since there was more land for more farming. With the advances in technology from small businesses made farming easier which also made it harder for…

It is the natural default setting of one’s mind to live a happy life with having a steady income, and what better place to be than the land of opportunity. Due to this mindset, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United States became very overpopulated especially in New York City. Even though the city lifestyle is set out be “living the dream”, this was not the case for everyone especially for the immigrants. City living was completely different in the late nineteenth and…

For this week’s readings, I am going to focus on the issue of growth in cities and what I found interesting in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. According to the reading on The City as a Growth Machine by Logan Molotch, “one issue consistently generates consensus among local elite groups and separates them from people who use the city principally as a place to live and work: the issue of growth.” Meaning that the local elites in these cities are divided from…

of the loop from Saint Bernard to Oakley. Thus, with insufficient funds, it was time to cut the eastern half of the loop plan that stretched from Oakley back into downtown. If the city were to extend the track to Oakley, this would require the completion of all the proposed stations, the creation of five more stations, and an added $1.3 Million. For $6 Million, the line would need to exclude the eastern half, but could still follow its original plan, only extending from downtown to Oakley, not…

- “Hating the shit out of the next town over” to me would apply to Brown and Schaffts internal structure v. external relationships. In my opinion the authors would view this as a strong relationship as it relates to “hate” of an outside town due to how urbanism has made it difficult for the local economy to survive if per se, a Walmart comes within 50 miles or so and is perhaps this cheaper alternative to local, farm grown/raised products—so I think here the hate could be from an economic…

Like many communities in rural Iowa, downtown Mount Pleasant has a wealth of older multi-story buildings and is the economic hub for retail businesses, professional offices, specialty and personal service shops, restaurants, and other businesses. Downtown Mount Pleasant is fortunate to have a core group of beautiful historic buildings, which have been a catalyst for a successful and vibrant downtown. However, this has not always been the case. In 2002 Mount Pleasant became a Main Street…

not to far from a big city is an ideal place to live and start an independent life. Having the option and getting to explore a big city is great as you learn valuable lessons that everyone should know while applying everything I learned living in a suburb community. I have been fortunate enough to spend a good amount of the past 6 years in Chicago. My dads work has temporally located him to work in the city. As hard as it has been not always having my dad around, I have learned a lot from my…

In this section, we discuss the relationship between congestion and regional growth by focusing on the estimation results. As shown in figure 3, we predict how growth of population and employment density change in the 86 largest U.S. metropolitan area when the congestion growth changes. Figure 3 presents that population growth of the largest U.S. cities would decline, whereas employment growth would continue to increase when congestion growth increases. These results indicate that population…

St. Louis, Missouri Interagency Smart City Program Need & Readiness Assessment While the Department of Transportation provided explicit criteria for evaluating a city’s merit to receive support under its Smart City sharing economy program, Smart City programs being offered by other agencies did not. The following review of select programs within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Energy (DOE), and Department of Justice (DOJ) applies the…

Throughout Radiant City, children were seeing dancing on power boxes and playing around cell phone towers. These structures were directly in the vicinity of the homes that people were living in. Urban designer Ken Greenberg, acknowledges that suburbs aspire to attain the luxuries of urban cities by building stores and shopping centers within nearby houses, but fall short in perfecting this reproduction (Brown & Burns, 2006). Regrettably, it appears that in the process of trying to replicate…