GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Edge City, Urban Sprawl
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Economic shift from the main city to the outside. Incentives to develop on the outside of the city. This results in a new city "edge city" Meadowlands nj is developed right outside of new york city. Transportation greatly influences the development of an edge city. Cities were having flaws:pollution, space, piracy, crime -> this gained momentum after wwi people began to dislike it more and more, so this lead to a shift of less urbanization. Explosion in the subarbs - people with jobs relocated. Why parents pick specifc suburbs to live in (quality of the school system) The car allowed us to leave the city and find privacy and acess our own resources like school work shopping. Without the car we would not have suburbanization. Brooklyn heights was the first subarb in the us. Levittowm usa - first large scale us suburb. This guy built these homes fast and cheap. President wanted to mobilized troops to safe locations.
