Suburb

The Suburbs, a perfect, quaint area just perfect for any family looking for a big house… Is what you may be thinking however, I am going to reveal the Suburbs’ true colors and show all of Funkytown just what lies beyond that dreadful highway. So, before you snatch the price tag for that 4 bedroom 3.5 bathroom house that is only $350 000, listen to what I have to say first. First off, you may have seen many suburban houses that seem the most “bang for your buck”. However, this is totally not the case, companies don’t tell you all of the hidden costs of living in suburbia. Statistics show that Canada has spent a total of $29 billion on roads alone in 2010-11, leaving suburb dwellers to pay half of it through tax. Many people are misleaded thinking that the nearest shopping center is just a 10 minute walk away, keep in mind that you are going to be living in a car-centered environment, sure, that may not be a problem but when you have a family you will most likely need two cars for each parent/guardian because of the long trips. A…

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…

When most people think about the Chicago suburbs they tend to think of it as a better environment for their children to be raised in. Some parents even up root their entire lives to move their kids to the suburbs. All done in hopes of providing a better life for their children. By getting them away from the dangers of the inner city life style. In their minds they are leaving behind street gangs, a run-down school system, and drugs. There has always been a certain set of higher expectations of…

A Rhetorical Analysis on “Suburb or Nothing” in the Memphis Flyer What should the relationship be between the suburbs and the city? The very small editorial in the Memphis Flyer gives somewhat efficient details on the term “Suburb of Nothing” originated and quoted by Mayor Mick Cornett. The writer of the article in the Commercial Appeal’s, “Suburb of Nothing”, effectively argues his/her point via the use of organization, formal tone and appeals to authority. Doing so, the writer gives history,…

In Becky Nicolaides’ chapter titled, “How Hell Moved from the City to the Suburbs”, she gently and respectively rejects the perception of suburbia that most of American’s hold in their minds today. Inside this book, “The New Suburban History”, Nicolaides explains why the great urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly…

Isolation in the Suburbs The Suburbs by Kenneth Sherman is a 1997 edition poem published by Mosaic Press under the collection called ‘Clusters; Kenneth Sherman is a veteran Canadian poet with multiple contributions to the Canadian literature since 1972. Coming from a humble background Sherman has witnessed the everyday struggles of survival, which is invariably evident in his writing. The unfortunate experiences his family went through during the holocaust left a deep impact on Sherman’s…

During the period conformed from 1961 to 2011, many fluctuations have occurred throughout the population of the Toronto CMA. Firstly, in 1961, there were just five Inner Suburbs around the central core as well as two outer suburbs. As time advanced, the population began to grow in different locations and scale. Through1971, the inception of outer suburbs was considerable and twelve new communities were constituted outside Metropolitan Toronto. In addition, Mississauga emerged as a big outer…

suburbia entails, a clear definition must be established. The Oxford dictionary defines a suburb as that an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one and suburbia as the suburbs or their inhabitants viewed collectively. Since the 1950s, a key goal for many Australians has been home ownership in the suburbs, however such an aspiration is changing in its desirability as reflected in declining home ownership rates in Australia over the last two decades . The reality of Australian…

and Promises (9/2011). It was an overview of how the American suburbs have changed since they were planned and built in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The changes that focused on were political, aging infrastructure, ethnic, social, and redevelopment with an emphasis on creating a more sustainable vision. Looking at the current condition of many suburbs, it became evident to the film maker that the suburb as designed and built was not a sustainable development. The film’s content and people interviewed…

Cities were seen as dark, over crowded and dirty this was due to coal fueling the inner city at the time of industrialization. The moral and physical decay of the city was a push factor to move to the suburbs, especially for the rich whom could afford nice houses and a healthy life style at the time. Rather than live in the hustle and bustle of the city people began to establish a life on the outskirts of the city where they could own land, a dog and raise a family. The appeal of this freedom…