Suburban South Analysis

According to Daily Life... (Kaldin, 2000) the population of suburban areas during the 1950s had started to double from 36 million to 74 million. This rise in suburban residents had continued from 1950 to 1970.When more families had started to move to suburban areas, they came together by adding things such as playgrounds, libraries, and schools to the neighborhood to benefit their kids. This “flight to the suburbs” was difficult for blacks because of the racism in society at the time. Many black people were ignored and shunned at this time in society, so it was hard for blacks to move into suburbs knowing that they could be ridiculed in these areas because of their skin color.

Specifically, white efficiency expert Dwight Thompson Farnham said, “A certain amount of segregation is necessary at times to preserve the peace” (Doc. 3). This reveals how despite the popular belief in the south, the north also had segregation and racism prevalent. To further support this idea that segregation was still prevalent in the North is Document 7. Specifically, the black population grows over time, but the blacks scattering throughout the city does not change at the same rate. Even though black population is growing, they still are in a part of town they is predominately black only (Doc. 7). Next, a white-owned newspaper discusses the topic of the poor quality of life for Negros in the north: “…the decent, hand-working, law-abiding Mississippi Negros who were lured to Chicago by the ball of higher wages, only to lose their jobs, or forced to accept lower pay after the labor shortage because less acute” (Doc. 4). This reveals how African Americans did not have jobs where they had sustainable income, appreciation, and reasonable hours, which was the complete opposite of what they expected. In all, from the perspective of white men in the north, white men believed that black men should be separated and be working in poor and unbearable conditions. The black individuals had an ideal picture of life in the north, but the white men clearly explain the difference between expectations and

Drugs can ruin your life, family, career and future. Jude Hassan author and main subject of the novel Suburban Junky, has a lot of similarities and differences with Chris Herren, former NBA player and star of the ESPN Documentary, Unguarded, regarding their addictions to drugs. The major similarities are their rehab time, painful withdraw and the major difference with them is that Jude did it to be popular and Chris did it to deal with the stress. Both Jude and Chris served a long period of time in jail because of their problems with drugs.

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

Chapters 11 and 12 in “Not in My Neighborhood” deal with Edmonson Village, a quaint, Catholic and mainly white section of Baltimore. Nothing was out of place in Edmonson Village, with TV’s running schedules and businesses thriving. But the families in the houses would stay put, being the only owners most of the time. This would mean the entire generation borne from the times of segregation did not take kindly to African Americans trying to settle in. See, black people were being vastly mistreated. Living in slums and segregated from sanitary and adequate living. But after the Civil Rights Act is passed and separation of blacks and whites is outlawed, African Americans begin earning enough to live in better quality homes, and looking to more upscale parts of

The news article I chose is titled Songbirds Divorce, Flee, and Fail to Reproduce Due to Suburban Sprawl written by Michelle Ma (2017). This news article is about one of the potential effects of suburban sprawl. Suburban sprawl is defined as the expansion of the human population away from the urban areas. Many people argue that sprawl has many negative effects on the environment such as taking agricultural lands and forests and turning them into an industrial warehouse that causes additional pollution. The negative effect on the environment in relation to this article is the displacement of wildlife that could lead to extinction.

Suburbanization and racial segregation are two concepts that played a major role in the story of Philando Castile’s death. Suburbanization is a term used to describe the growth of areas on the fringes of major cities. There was data that collected on the suburbs of St. Anthony’s which displayed the major residential differences between neighboring communities. These concepts were a factor that took part in Philando’s death because the data that had been collected displayed that African Americans who crossed into mostly white suburbs or through “borderlands”, were up to seven times more likely to be stopped by law enforcement which is what led to the death of Philando Castile.

The following City of Southfield Analysis is sourced from the City of Southfield, Michigan Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the year ended June 30, 2016.

The data portrayed above shows that Montgomery County is composed of highly-educated adults. On the subject of high school graduates, there is a big gap between the north and south portions of the country. Montgomery County is located in the Northern portion which is congested with a high proportion of high school graduates. Since the county is situated near a large urban cluster, it is not hard to predict the demand for quality education. Because of the accessibility of major colleges, the percentage of people with Bachelor's degree or higher is far more superior than the overall percentage of Pennsylvania and America. As college educated adults start having big families, the county is an ideal place to reside in. The factor of suburbanization

Tissot claims that “Gentrifies want to elaborate a way of life different from that of the suburbs, translating certain liberal ideas into action. At the same time, they still have a deep-rooted fear of the “ghettos” and of “the other” especially as embodied by black men. (p. 250)” Upper middle class came to the South End not because they could no longer afford to live in the suburbs or the higher end side of the town, but because they wanted a different scenery, a more diverse scenery. But as Tissot states, their “love of diversity goes hand in hand with its strict limitation and control. (p. 246)” Prior to moving to South End, these pioneers had their own residential norms embedded in them.

This idea of the hollowness of suburbia became very apparent to me during an AP U.S.History lecture my junior year. The defining characteristic of suburbs, conformity, scared me. I often saw people close to me make a decision based on what was around them rather than what they felt was right for them. I did not want to be someone

Where the divided goes beyond city blocks, different “territories” as, we like to say on the South Side.

In the years following World War II, there was a drastic increase in population in America as a result of the influx of soldiers returning home from the war, which brought on the need for more housing options for them. The modern American suburbs were developed to meet that need. A suburb is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2014) as “an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one”. The emergence and development of the suburbs was made easier by the implementing of various zoning laws and advances in transportation. In some older American cities, specifically ones in the northeastern parts of the U.S. “streetcar suburbs”, which were residential areas in which the primary mode of transportation was the use of streetcar lines, emerged. This system made it easy for workers to go back and forth between their homes in the suburbs and the city centres were majority of the job opportunities were located. The term “bedroom community”, which meant that all the daytime proceedings took place in the cities and the working population returned to the suburbs at night to go to sleep, was coined for that reason. In 1947 the first major suburban development in the United States emerged. Abraham Levitt, an American entrepreneur along with his two sons began the development in Long Island, New York and over the course of a few years they managed to transform what was formerly farmland into a new community of houses. That first suburban development which became known as

     This Halloween, Sean Clancy had the most original costume in his southern Pennsylvania neighborhood. The base layer of his costume wasn’t very exciting at all- a flannel shirt, jeans and boots. However, the next layer really made Clancy’s costume memorable. He tucked a street sign into his belt and draped a GAP bag from his left pocket. He hung a Coke can from his thigh and pinned a Sunoco gas rebate banner on his right knee. A KFC sign was just above his left knee, and Clancy’s mask was a US road atlas. Even among all the goblins, ghouls, ghosts, and Lord of the Rings characters, Clancy was the scariest creature of them all. Urban Sprawl.

Joshua Ruff in “For Sale — The America Dream,” analyzes the growth of suburban living in the United States. This article focuses mainly on the first suburban community that was developed in Levittown, New York in the early 1950s.