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GI Bill
1944 under FDR. Free tuition for soldiers. It drove residential patterns. Created the suburbs.
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The marshall plan (ERP)
European Recovery Plan. 13 billion dollars in grants to rebuild Europe.
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National Interstate and Defense Highways Act.
Eisenhower came up with it. If a war was to be fought here, it would be easier to transport soldiers.
Residential patterns got stimulated.
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Problems with suburbs
- Commute time
- Resource depletion
- Automobile Dependency
- Social Isolation
- Capital Relocation/Shift
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HOLC
policy in which minorities were denied loans to move out. Created white flight.
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Spatial Mismatch
- Lack of transit resources
- High Degree of turnover
- Cost us money indirectly
- Isolation leads to Apathy
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Crime in the city
Density, concentrated in poverty, more people.
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Redlining
Banks, savings and loans, government agencies, insurance companies refuse to make home and small business loans to insure their property to the poor people or minorities.
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Blockbusting
a strategic real estate agency maneuver that encouraged whites to sell their houses at a loss by implying that minorities were moving into the neighborhood.
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White Flight
movement in which predominantly upper middle class, middle class, and working class whites fled from the central cities to suburbs.
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Boomsburg
a suburban city of at least 100,000 that has experienced double digit growth each decade since it became urban
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Urban Spawl
low-density, automobile-dependent development outside of the central city.
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Commute times for chicago
It is above the average with 95 mintues to 90 minutes average.
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Social isolation
Threat to democracy. We tend to just care about ourselves. Automobile dependency adds to this.
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Automobile Dependency
Social isolation and less use of the public transportation.
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