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This week’s presentation is brought to you by Gevik and Akop. This week we start looking at the development of the suburbs which did not get much attention from planners due to the lack of services until 1860.
Let’s start by looking at the scale of a house. What we know today as the nuclear family, did not exist until 200 years ago. People used to live in big communities and families didn’t play a primary role in one’s social life. After the industrial revolution and birth of capitalism, people moved to cities looking for jobs and “better” living conditions. While some of the earliest factories in New England hired young, single women, cities generally experienced a separation of the male, public workplace from the female domain of the private sphere. Isolations of nuclear families in single family home created a distance between the chaos of the industrial city and the private home, which turned out beneficial for every middle class citizen who sought to protect the morals of their young families; therefore the home became very intimate and private. Home, sweet home.
“In most primitive societies, where people belonged to the land rather the reverse, private property was unknown.”(Jackson, 208). However, the idea of land ownership was brought by Europeans as a “cultural baggage”. Real-estate meant power. Therefore, it became the middle class’s goal to work hard and purchase land. The dream of owning a private property, gave politician the power of keeping people at work and off the strikes. “Give him hope, give him the chance of providing for his family, of laying up a store for his old age, of commanding some cheap comfort or luxury, upon which he sets his heart; and he will voluntarily and cheerfully submit to privation and hardship.” (Jackson, 208)
For four thousand years, in nature , human congestion meant security. For example, colonial America ns in New England believed that having a tight community was the way and they considered the wilderness as a dark and terrifying place. By the early to mid-19th century, however, nature took on a romantic or restorative quality in the minds of many Americans. Those with the economic means built their houses farther away from the city center. In some of the earliest development of the suburbs, row houses started to appear. In 1860 it became noticeable that there was no way of determining the orientation of the house in relation to its site. There were no rules on how much open space should be devoted to the front back and the side. By 1870, detached housing appeared in the suburbs. Each property had an open space in-between the next properties and also in the front and back. This meant that the activities that needed open space could now be achieved in the yard. In addition, this meant more isolation. With the emerge of roads, rail, electric streetcars, and eventually freeways , the suburbs started growing away from the center of the city and continued on becoming more isolated than ever.
Questions:
In what ways were the developments of early suburbs similar and different from the development of the urban park movement of the 19th century?
Did you grow up in a suburb or a city? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of growing in such a place?
Isolation of families and individuals are very apparent in the reading. Activities that used to take place in the streets are now happening in our own backyard. Therefore, leaving the streets of suburbs nothing but a car path. How would you encourage more activities on the streets?
MY CLASSMATE ANSWER
1. The emergence of the suburbs is similar to the Urban Park movement of the 19th century is a few ways. The first way being that these were both ways to move people out of the city in order to leave the hardships of city life behind. Secondly, with people moving away from the city social classes began to divide. This is because people who could afford to leave the city left and those who couldn't afford to move stayed.
2. I grew up in a suburb. The advantages of suburbs in my opinion is that it creates more of a neighborly community.
3. Back in my hometown (a suburb of Phoenix) the streets are nothing but car paths. But there are certain places nearby where the 'car paths' turn into busy areas with lots going on on the streets. In order to encourage more activity on the streets I would do something similar to what my hometown has done. I would give some sort of incentives to business owners and restaurant owners so that they can set up in a common area which would attract many people
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