15 July 2019

How The US Government Sold Us On The Suburbs

The 'mellow years' ??
MESA IS THE BIGGEST SUBURB IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES - the result of city planning without the city traffic ....
Published on Jul 9, 2019
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I have always been interested in the suburbs – where they came from – how they grew so fast after World War II.
This documentary clip was made by the government to help GIs and their families feel confident that housing would be made available outside the "squalor" of the cities
BLOGGER NOTE: The first 'suburban' tracts of housing here in Mesa financed after World War 2 were just east and north of the original One-Square Mile. Owners of downtown commercial buildings like Stapley and LeBaron built housing, others like Berge went into selling cars, others went into the insurance industries.

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