Eastern Suburbs

Education is still treated like a privilege instead of a right. Public education in urban areas is said to be significantly worse than in suburban areas. In fact only 19 percent of students from urban areas seek higher education compared to 70 percent of their suburban counterparts. According to research this is drastically different due to resources, teacher attrition rate, and the lack of parental support. Funds are given to the top performing schools living many low performing schools at the…

The upcoming presidential election, coupled with social media has exposed the dark underbelly of this country. There is a blatant difference in the living conditions of two groups of people in the country. The underbelly, is the real life differences that many citizens of our nation face daily depending on their economic means and living circumstances. A person’s economic means also create a difference in neighborhoods, education and interests in leisure activities. Whether it’s social media or…

history of the suburbs, how it changes politically, and socially. It also demonstrated their developmental challenges, as well as a form of sustainable living styles in the suburbs. The documentary mainly focuses on the political changes, social change, ethics, matters of individuals that live in the suburbs, and redevelopment. Throughout the film, it shows different areas of suburban homes and each add a distinctive element to their story. Issues are identified for these suburbs and it explains…

Location, location, location. It’s the old realtor 's mantra for what the most important feature is when looking at a potential house. If the house is in a bad neighborhood, it may not be suitable for the buyers. In searching for a house, many people will look at how safe the surrounding area is and if it’s not safe they will stray away. Jane Jacobs understood the importance of this and knew how cities could maintain this safety, but warned of what would become of them if they did not stray away…

Since competition from other countries was down due to the war, more jobs were created and some came with higher pay. When the soldiers came back home they decided to move away and out of from the city, which led to a major increase in suburbs. All of the soldiers being home also lead to the baby boom. More babies meant more demand in bigger and better housing. Building housing eventually started to resemble a production line where one group of people specialized in one thing. These houses…

Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road was first published in 1961. This cult classic centers around a couple, Frank and April Wheeler, who lives in a suburban area. These two characters believe they are better than those surrounding them who apply to the norms of suburbia such as conformity, unity, and exclusivity. In a society such as this one, finding and maintaining an original identity is deceiving. The novel begins with a theatrical letdown, and it appears that every event thereafter ends in…

Manhattan Analysis: A Discussion of Urban Life and Urban Planning As along with the rapid development of science and advanced technology, people’s life style in urban area is dramatically changed with the outstanding improvement of the urban planning and management. In the movie Manhattan directed by Woody Allen, described a romantic story of four people’s life in Manhattan, the importance of the urban planning to people’s urban life is obviously discovered by the main characters’…

cities, areas that meet the geographical, if not the sociological, definition of suburbs, Wiese argues that, for blacks as for whites, the process was one of upward, as well as outward, mobility. He examines next the peak years of American suburbanization when the federal housing policies made homeownership accessible to…

Anyon (1980) discusses the concept of social class in five New Jersey elementary schools and argues that each of the schools prepares students to fit into the social class that the school is primarily composed of. In each of the five elementary schools Anyon (1980) examined, social class most certainly had pivotal component in the curriculum, but the geographical community also played a key role in the hidden curriculum as well. One of the first items mentioned by Anyon (1980) prior to…

Life in the 1950s vs. Today In comparison with recent times, throughout the 1950s, there was equal unemployment, more births, less women employed, a movement from large cities to the suburbs, housing shortages, changes in health, changes in transit, and multiple corporations maximized. Although some of these can be deemed negative, it always shapes history and leads us to where we are today. The 1950s decade became known as the “Baby Boom”. There was a prediction of 5 million births by the end…