VART 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: William Levitt, Herbert J. Gans, Commuter Town
27 Sep 2018
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11/3/17 (according to k. jackson, crabgrass frontier, 1984, p. 238) Believed that the city had a lower quality of life. Fuels purchases that city life had not happened before: cars, lawn mowers. Many families moved into suburbs around nyc: the parents transported back and forth to work. Economic expansion: more jobs available, especially in large cities in the north east (cid:862)the g(cid:396)eat mig(cid:396)atio(cid:374)(cid:863: african americans leaving the segregated south, moving north, east and west. Suburbs at first were called bedroom communities: new way of living family lives. P(cid:396)eside(cid:374)t roose(cid:448)elt (cid:862)no (cid:373)a(cid:374) (cid:449)ho o(cid:449)(cid:374)s his o(cid:449)(cid:374) house a(cid:374)d lot (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)ist. Natio(cid:374)al housi(cid:374)g a(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d the ho(cid:373)e o(cid:449)(cid:374)e(cid:396)"s loa(cid:374) co(cid:396)po(cid:396)atio(cid:374) (1933) Federal highway planning act (1956: largest public work project in history, 25 billion dollars. Refinanced homes that were in danger of foreclosure. Devised a rating system of properties, which led to banks not approving loans in certain.
