suburbanization

Examples of suburbanization in the following topics:

• Suburbanization

  • Suburbanization is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities.
  • The traditional suburban cul-de-sac residential design is one pull towards suburban living for many families.
  • Pull factors for suburbanization at the turn of the century included more open spaces, the perception of being closer to nature, and lower suburban house prices and property taxes in comparison to cities.
  • Certain infrastructure changes encouraged families to leave urban areas for suburban ones, primarily the development of the Interstate Highway System and insurance policies favoring suburban areas.
  • Analyze the various push and pull factors that lead to suburbanization, including the concept of white flight, as well as the impact of suburbanization on urban areas

• The Rural Rebound

  • Population trends in Boston, Massachusetts show the modern process of suburbanization.
  • It is thus a new, modern form of suburbanization.
  • The rural rebound refers to the movement away from cities to rural and suburban areas.
  • However, the suburbanization that took place after 1970 was different from the suburbanization that had occurred earlier, after World War II.
  • Explain the rural rebound and how it contributes to the suburbanization of society

• Shrinking Cities and Counter-Urbanization

  • Counterurbanization is movement away from cities, including suburbanization, exurbanization, or movement to rural areas.
  • Recently, in developed countries, sociologists have observed suburbanization and counterurbanization, or movement away from cities, which may be driven by transportation infrastructure or social factors like racism.
  • Sociologists have posited many explanations for counterurbanization, but one of the most debated known as "white flight. " The term "white flight" was coined in the mid-twentieth century to describe suburbanization and the large-scale migration of whites of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban regions.
  • In the United States, suburbanization began in earnest after World War Two, when soldiers returned from war and received generous government support to finance new homes.
  • The modern U.S. experience has followed a circular pattern over the last 150 years, from a largely rural country, to a highly urban country, to a country with significant suburban populations.

• Instructional Scenarios

  • Focuses on a scenario in a language arts class in a suburban American high school (http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?

• The Growth of Suburbs

  • The suburban population in North America exploded during the post-World War II economic expansion.
  • Suburban houses also brought about needs for products that were not needed in urban neighborhoods, such as lawnmowers and automobiles.
  • These suburban residences are built on larger lots of land than in the central city.
  • Instead, new governments spent taxes to establish suburban infrastructures.
  • Levittown refers to seven large suburban developments created in the United States by William Levitt and his company Levitt & Sons.

• The Process of Urbanization

  • Chicago is an example of a U.S. city that has seen vast suburbanization as middle and upper class residents move to nearby suburbs.
  • Recently in developed countries, sociologists have observed suburbanization and counterurbanization, or movement away from cities.
  • Race also plays a role in American suburbanization.
  • During World War I, the massive migration of African Americans from the South resulted in an even greater residential shift toward suburban areas.
  • Interestingly, the modern U.S. experience has gone from a largely rural country, to a highly urban country, to a country with significant suburban populations.

• Urban Decline

  • In contrast, in North American and British cities, the impoverished areas begin to develop in the city center as individuals relocate their residences to suburban areas outside of the city.
  • Changes in means of transport, from public to private—or specifically from public trains to private motor cars—eliminated some advantages of living and working in the city and enabled suburbanization.
  • Following World War II, political decisions in the U.S. further solidified the already growing trend of suburbanization.
  • Many cities used city taxes to build new infrastructure in remote, racially-restricted suburban towns.
  • Historically in the U.S., the white middle class gradually left the cities for suburban areas because of the perceived higher crime rates and dangers caused by African-American migration to northern cities after World War I; this demonstrates so-called white flight.

• Urban Gentrification

  • ., education) characteristic of suburban residents.
  • The new baby boomer residents departed from the suburban family idea, marrying later and having fewer children; women in the baby boomer generation were the first to enter the workforce in serious numbers.
  • At this time, the suburban ideal was falling out of favor; fewer people were moving to suburbs and more were moving back to cities.
  • These policies enabled black families to move out of urban centers and into the suburbs, thus decreasing the availability of suburban land, while integrationist policies encouraged white movement into traditionally black urban areas.
  • During the two decades following World War II, low rents in the city's periphery encouraged suburban development; as capital investment moved to suburbs, inner-city property values fell.

• The Middle Class

  • An upscale home in suburban California, an example of the "conspicuous consumption" of the American middle class.

• The Culture of Abundance and Consumerism

  • With Detroit turning out automobiles as fast as possible, city dwellers gave up cramped apartments for a suburban life style centered around children and housewives, with the male breadwinner commuting to work.
  • Meanwhile, the suburban population swelled because of the baby boom.