GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Profit Maximization, Commuter Town, Garden City Movement
4 Apr 2016
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New england village = historical ideal of the city/town; used as a model for green belt cities. But saw only 2 options: the greenbelt city and the industrial hell hole". The new city, women were back at home". Race: black exclusion. lack of racial diversification? in greenbelt cities. New urbanism: design of suburbs that would ressembles the high density urban area. People live in the suburbs and work in the city. Called extensive urbanization" (and not intensive urbanization) - as if expends from the city center. Suburbs represent an ideal way of life. they are an ideological construct. so in this section of the class, we are looking at suburbs as creation of our imagination. The garden of eden is a version of the arcadian myth. It holds that the best form of life is an idealized pasture form of life?? where one is close to nature.
