GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gated Community, Feng Shui
Document Summary
By 2000, 50% of americans lived in suburbs. End product of a succession of choices over many years. Linked to changes in us american political culture, shifts in ideas about success. Development of a new bourgeois class with growing capitalist economies. Romantic suburbs became the symbol of elite ideal. Emergence of a romantic view of nature as a source of benign, virtuous element that elevates the human spirit. Redefinition of family and gender roles in the victorian period. New technologies such as commuter trains and cars. New ideologies that emphasize the self, individuality, and independence. World war ii is also responsible for the surge of suburbs. Suburbanization is part of a trend called inverted quarantine . Quarantine: is the public health measure that society has used for hundreds of years to contain the spread of an infectious disease. The idea: the whole environment is toxic.
