Houses In The 1900's

The bungalow style was a major influence in the drastic change of American society and how people lived. It influenced a major shift in gender role of women in society, creating easier housekeeping techniques and greater employment and career opportunities for women by confronting economic and social issues in society using domestic architecture. The simpler home design expressed many tensions of Progressivism in attempting to solve social issues of the time. The transformation brought about new ideas as well as fears that had to be confronted.

Square footage and room sizes have changed tremendously since the 1950’s. From growing up around my great grandmother, I remember what my grandma’s house was like when she was growing up. There was only one

During the “Baby Boomer” era, following WWII, America underwent one of the largest demographic shifts and population growths in history. Huge amounts of home construction on the outskirts of America’s largest cities, known as “levittowns” became the new staple of the American dream, with the houses sporting two car garages, and white picket fences. These low density, predominantly middle class residential districts, were America’s first true suburbs. These suburbs were constructed mainly in response to the new postwar consumerism that enveloped the parents of the baby boomers. With the new economy, affordable housing, and most families becoming single income dependent, families grew bigger and bigger. The 1947 passing of the bill that lead to the interstate highway system, only added fuel to the fire of suburbanization. With the new interstate highway system, more affordable and fuel efficient automobiles, and the government aiding in the financing of new suburban homes, the choice seemed elementary. All of these factors pushing to the suburban movement, only spurred the baby boomers on, and between 1940-50, there was an 835% percent increase in living births with nearly 4 million children being born every year. In 1940, 19.5% of the United States population lived in what would be considered to be suburban areas outside of large metropolitan areas, however, by 1960; the number was pushing nearly 40%. The postwar suburbanization of America during the baby boomer

What key attempts were made to improve workers housing in Britain between 1850 -1910? What particular design features were considered important to raise living standards?

“American corporate designers were learned in Modernist theory, but nevertheless found bulbous aerodynamic bodyshells an appropriately slick garb for wares of a vigorous, efficient society with an aggressive faith in its future. Flashy exaggeration at the hands of the stylists, ever compelled to ‘improve’ on last year’s model, gave streamlining a bad name.” (Hodges, Coad, Stone, Sparke, Aldersey-Williams, The New Design Source Book, 1992, p.158) Discuss in relationship to the ‘innovation’ in household designs of the 1950’s, how do these designs compare to similar examples of today? Do designers today feel “compelled to improve on last years model?

This was a time where most citizens were homeless due to many reasons, so for shelter they had to make their house out of anything they could find like garbage and shingles. During the early 1900’s the causes of the Great Depression were slowly rising up and the stock market was one of them. After World War l America was divided and returning soldiers from the war had no jobs. A lot of the men

The Progressive Era was a time of social work, the struggle for women’s rights, and millions of immigrants expanding into the United States. During the era, there was many poverty stricken neighborhoods. Poverty reforms were created to help poverty in the U.S., one of them being settlement houses. Settlement houses were influenced by Toynbee Hall in London. Their idea was that students and wealthy people should “settle” in impoverished neighborhood and provide services and improve the lives of the neighborhoods and those living in them. Settlement houses were designed to help the poor, including immigrants, with the help of middle class workers, in an effort to improve the neighborhoods in the poorest parts of the cities.

In the 1900s and now, having a nice home in a beautiful community shows that your family can afford and keep affording to live at a high standard of living, shows power. During this time period for a african american family to own a home that is in a nice neighborhood would be a very big deal. Many white people were afraid that if black people moved into their neighborhoods their houses will decrease in value, crime rates will go up, and they were just scared. For an african american man having a home was a sign of success because they could afford a home and could keep it up. If a black family moved into a white neighborhood many times their white neighbors chased them out. Housing is a great way to show success, wealth, and power and the white communities are willing to do anything to keep their neighborhoods the same.

The White House is an symbol of our nations leadership, being the most recognized structure in America it was meant to be flexible. American was not even twenty-fie years old when John Adams inhabited the White House in 1800, it was impossible to see how and when the executive chief would call for expansion, renovation, or redesign. Washington, who had selected the site and approved the final design, knew the residence and the public buildings, such as the Capitol, would need to known "beyond the present day." The White House survived  the War of 1812, a major expansion in 1902, and reconstruction in the early 1950s — although each time the nature of the building was preserved.To this day, George Washington, would still recognize the place

In the Henry Horner homes their living conditions weren’t very clean and put together. The families that lived in the henry horner homes were in living conditions that weren't safe but they couldn't do anything about it. The conditions at the Henry Horner homes weren’t safe because the families could get disease from people not cleaning up the place. When Alex Kotlowitz went to the Henry Horner homes he described some of the conditions and what was in the homes. Kotlowitz described how there were “ scurrying rats and dead cats and dogs, as well as waste of heavy drugs people did and just left there”. From the conditions in the Henry Horner homes the people adapted to what the living conditions were. The reason the people had to adapt were

If you're like most people, you probably think that the split-level house was invented in the 1950's. It definitely started becoming popular around that time. A typical 1950's split. No.

people to live in homes that are bigger than they actually need, but the way the

Housing was deemed a necessity as people were living in poor conditions, families were overcrowded and there was families living in tenements that shared toilet amenities. Also there were homeless people living in the streets.

Connected to the previous two subtopics of homeownership and residential stability, the quality of housing, or the physical condition and safety of the home, is a subtopic of the housing indicator. Older housing presents the potential for directly

The lack of housing access was a serious problem, hence the government undertakes mulitple measures to tackle the massive housing shortage inherited from the colonial government to ensure that all of its citizens had access to affordable housing.[1]