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The film begins with a male narrator's depiction of a quiet, attractive, well-manicured suburban American neighborhood in the 1950s. Ed, an elderly white gentleman, nails a "For Sale" sign post in the front yard of his single family home.
White flight or white exodus[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. [ 4 ][ 5 ] Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They referred to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries ...
Tract housing, sometimes informally known as cookie cutter housing, is a type of housing development in which multiple similar houses are built on a tract (area) of land that is subdivided into smaller lots. Tract housing developments are found in suburb developments that were modeled on the "Levittown" concept and sometimes encompass large ...
The cookie-cutter neighborhood is an iconic American symbol of suburbia — the architecture is uniform, the lawns manicured, the colors drawn from the same palate. ... made suburban secrets and ...
From 1980 to 2000, the level of neighborhood dissimilarity and isolation increased between the Latino population and the white population. Although around 50% of Latinos live in the suburban area, it is projected that with increasing immigration, the divide between Latino and white populations will continue to persist in residential areas. [5]
An aerial view of housing developments near Markham, Ontario; suburban development is often criticised for its uniformity. Criticism of suburbia dates back to the boom of suburban development in the 1950s and critiques a culture of aspirational homeownership. [1] In the English-speaking world, this discourse is prominent in the United States ...
Pittsburgh. The Hill District is a grouping of historically African American neighborhoods in the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beginning in the years leading up to World War I, "the Hill" was the cultural center of black life in the city and a major center of jazz. [1] Despite its cultural and economic vibrancy, in the mid-1950s a ...
Levitt & Sons was a real estate development company founded by Abraham Levitt and later managed by his son William Levitt. The company built the town of Levittown, New York. The company's designs and building practices transformed the home building industry and altered the north eastern landscape of the United States with massive suburban ...