Thursday, February 19, 2009

Week 4: Move to Suburbs and Gentrification


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Voices: Hal Craddock – Lynchburg Architect involved in ‘non-suburban’ design ideas: revitalizing downtown and the New Urbanist community, Wyndhurst.
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The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
--Marshall McLuhan
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Crabgrass Frontier, achieved the rare feat of winning both the Bancroft Award, given by Columbia University for the year's best work of history, and the Francis Parkman Prize, awarded by the Society of American Historians. The book is a critical work in the history of American Suburbs.
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Suburban Sahibs traces the lives of three immigrant families that make their way from various parts of India to the suburbs of New Jersey, giving us a closer look at the American Dream for immigrants, as well as suburbia. At the same time we watched the documentary End of Suburbia which documents how the changing oil issues may end an American institution.

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