Suburb

typical white suburb it would be Tempe, Arizona. I grew up here and so did my parents and neighbors. Tempe, Arizona is all I know because it is the only thing I have seen and heard of. Don’t get me wrong Tempe is a strong community, but it is like everyone is trapped here.I like to call my community a bubble. In this bubble I was raised it has shaped me to be different from everyone in my environment. I am going to give you a little background on Tempe. Tempe is a typical suburb area where you…

In California, following the 2008 financial crisis, residents of a sleepy San Francisco suburb called Antioch witnessed their home values plummet by as much as two-thirds (Kirkpatrick and Gallagher, 37). “Until recently, low-income households, including voucher holders, were systematically priced out of the single-family, suburban housing market. The limited number of Section 8 recipients who did manage to find housing outside the urban core were isolated in the “bad” parts of suburban cities,…

After World War II, America had a few struggles until the postwar boom. The postwar boom caused a great economic outbreak, there were new jobs, there was a new suburban life, more babies were being born, and highways and interstates were being built. Americans had money, consumers were spending money, new companies were being built, new jobs were created and new technology was born. During World War II Americans earned wages but they saved much of their earnings. Even Americans who were not…

Over the past few decades, racial residential segregation has had a major influence on many American cities. Many American cites experienced white individuals moving away from the inner city to the suburb, this is also known as “white flight. This particular movement has played a major role in shaping the American city today. The purpose of this study is to address the effects of white flight, mainly focusing on its influence on income and crime. There has been a great deal of research that…

Often times we have seen what type of effect a neighborhood can have on a person whether they are young or older. However the effect are most noticeable in children who grew up in an urban neighborhood involved with crime, drugs, and violence. In these neighborhoods parents try their best to keep their best to shelter children from what goes on outside but they have to work as well which is usually for many hours a day to make ends meet. The most recurrent similarity in children who misbehave no…

“Four Hundred Million Americans” says “The best places to find America’s Hindu temples and new mosques are not in the teeming cities but in the outer suburbs of Los Angeles, New York, and Houston. But these areas are rarely dominated by one ethnicity, and alongside the temples and mosques you will also find churches and synagogues.” It is said that suburbs in the future will become melting pots in the years to come, as more and more immigrants from other countries opt for dispersed living over…

in Toronto, and in a smaller community such as the Ryerson campus. Traveling from the suburbs to the urbanized heart of Toronto, the change of architecture was noticeable. In the suburbs there are many multi-story houses, in residential neighborhoods. But when traveling south, bungalows were more common. This is because as urbanization continues, new home are being built along the suburbs, whereas older bungalows remain from a time before. Aside from building differences, the…

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…

one of these ideas was Levittown. Levittown was a suburb where they built houses in large loads, many of the first people to live in these houses were soldiers. This was a result of the G.I bill which supplied housing and education to veterans that just came back from the most recent war. With people gaining more money and getting jobs the population of suburbia was increased to really anyone who could afford a house there. But, even though suburbs were meant for everyone they weren’t, they were…

Suburbanization is considered the main reason for the expansion of Toronto. Firstly, changes in transportation played a vital role for the expansion and creation of the majority of cities. Behan states that new technology for transportation was a key factor to suburb sprawl. In addition, Fyfe argues that the increment of vehicles and the development of highways allow variations in the distributions of communities. For instance, in the period of 1961-1991 Mississauga experienced big changes…