Suburb

Introduction Urban sprawl is the expansion of a city or its suburbs, especially the commercialization in rural areas including farmland or undeveloped lands, such as forests and open spaces. Urban sprawl can be caused by numerous factors including rapid population growth, rise of living standard, decrease of land rate, lack of urban planning, etc. Urban sprawl creates numerous problems that would decrease in environmental quality through wildlife habitat destruction, deforestation, wetlands, and…

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…

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…

the construction of suburbs throughout America has caused suburban sprawl. Many important elements can be coined as the reasons for a shift away from living in the city to living outside the city. Some of these aspects include technological changes in transportation, poor living conditions in cities, and a need for a more community-focused way of life. Five cities, in particular, will be examined to show the history of suburbia as well as show the relationships that each suburb has had on one…

every major city. People began moving to suburbs just on the outskirts of cities. “From 1960 to 1968, an estimated two million whites, most of whom were relatively young, middle and upper-income families, moved into suburban areas” (Davies, Fowler 153). During this time period, Caucasians flooded out of the cities to suburbs where they were able to afford better houses for their money and live in predominantly, if not entirely, white areas. The creation of suburbs served as a mean of…

such as; the music they hear, the fashion they wear, the way they think, and the slang they use in their vocabulary. Can the American Dream be another generation change? If we look back into history, after World War 2, people were migrating into the suburbs; they wanted to have a family and a house to go to every night. However, studies show that over the past twelve years that has changed. We can blame many causes for this change, for example, culture…

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…

In the 1950s, life was fairly great for those who lived in the suburbs. The first suburb was developed by Abraham Levitt and his two sons, William and Alfred, he named it Levittown, after himself, of course. It was just pure farming land before he got to it, but after he was done it had become a suburban community that housed thousands of men with their families. A basic Levitt four-room house on a 6,000-square-foot lot sold for $6,900, about 2-1/2 years’ wages. It was criticized as stifling…

socially and politically. All of these places have issues such as an aging infrastructure and with such problems the suburbia is still alive. The main purpose in this movie in my own standpoint is to highlight the issues and the changes facing the suburb of the Unites States with regards to all the…

it, they are not currently in the order which they will be cited in the final draft for the structure of the argument is not finalized. 1. Many of what are now London’s prime gentrified areas (Notting Hill Gate; Islington; Wandsworth) were, its suburbs in the…