GGR100H1 Chapter Notes -Sustainable City, Smog, Historic Preservation
Document Summary
Walked has now turned into dependence on automobile, suburban sprawl increased as metropolitan areas extern further out into countryside, farmland turned into tract housing, words into subdivision, prairie into gated communities. Occurs especially in growth areas rapid increase in traffic, overcrowded schools, local property taxes, all stimulate local resistance. Some residents begin to resist the latest round of development proposals particularly strong when local residents are wealthy and organized. Loss of green space, loss of community all fear of change, distaste for incoming riches who had money to disrupt traditional moral code. Not here , not this here, not here now, - success of resistance depends upon wealth, organizational skill and effective links to political power. Resistance movement has to compete with powerful development, real estate and property investment fails due to lack of access to power and political leverage declines with income and status.
