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Development of Sprawl and Suburbs
Development of Sprawl and Suburbs
- 1850's: City Borderlands
- The edges of cities were unattractive places to live
- Typically industrious, polluted, and undesirable
- 1870 - 1920: Development of Streetcar Suburbs
- Linear ribbons of development along streetcar lines appeared
- By early 1900's rings of income-graded suburbs exist
- 1910 - 1940: Curbstone Suburbs
- Mail order housing and self built suburbs begin appearing
- Fully built out suburbs begin appearing later in time frame
- 1940: Mass Produced Suburbs
- Standardized, assembly-line like production
- Increased racist housing practices, redlining
- 1944: Federal Highway Act
- Began federal subsidization of highway construction
- Coined as national defense and employment effort
- Made it possible to live further from city, commute
- 1956: Federal Aid Highway Act
- Increased federal subsidization of highways to 90%
- Accelerated suburban sprawl and movement out of cities
- 1980 - Beyond: Edge Cities
- Office parks, big box stores, McMansions
- Automotive-centric developments
- Current Day
- Urban sprawl still occurring
- Some cities implementing urban growth boundaries in an attempt to curb sprawl
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