GEOG-130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Levittown, New York, Affordable Housing, Organic Food
Document Summary
By 2000, 50% of americans lived in the suburbs . The fact that so many of us live a suburban life is the end product of a succession of choices over many, many years. Sub-urb economies and new markers of class identity. Development/expansion of a new bourgeois class with growing capitalist. Romantic suburbs as a site where the middle classes could create a separate. Emergence of a romantic view of nature as a source of benign, human enrichment. Redefinition of family and gender roles in the victorian period. Suburban home becomes a sacred space, sphere for family values to flourish. New technologies such as commuter trains and cars. New ideologies that emphasize the self, individuality, and independence. Levittown, new york vs. model of vanport, oregon. Affordable housing for all types of people. Alignment between job sites and child care centers. Suburbanization is tied into a way of thinking about the world.
