urban sprawl (1945-1973) preconditions & entrepreneurial reactions
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Urban Sprawl (1945-1973)
Preconditions & Entrepreneurial Reactions
Preconditions Of Sprawl
Land Use Zoning
Backlog of Demand
GI Bill – FHA-like Loans
New & improved Roads
Land Use Zoning
“Euclidean” Zoning
Backlog of Demand
War-time Moratorium
The “Baby-boom”
(1946 – 1964)
G.I. Bill
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act
Eisenhower’s Highways
1956 Federal Aid Highway
New & Improved Roads
1956 Federal Aid Highway – impact on central city & urban periphery
“You have to hack your way with a meat ax”
Robert Moses
Auto vs. Mass Transit
Tire replaces rail and/or track
Omni/bus:
poor man’s transportation
Entrepreneurial Reaction
Suburban Tract Housing
- Levitts’ development
revolution
Levittown, New York
Before
Levittown, New York
After
Cape Cod rendering - Levittown
Fifty years later
Common Interest Development
Selling life-style =
CID
Suburbanization of other uses
Southgate, Milwaukee
Urban Realms model
Diffused significance of central city