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Victorian-era suburb (late 1800s)

Victorian-era suburb (late 1800s). Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Concept, 1898. Frederick Law Olmsted’s plan for the Chicago suburb of Riverside, IL, 1869. The New Deal’s Greenbelt Town Program, 1936-1938.

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Victorian-era suburb (late 1800s)

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  1. Victorian-era suburb (late 1800s)

  2. Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City Concept, 1898

  3. Frederick Law Olmsted’s plan for the Chicago suburb of Riverside, IL, 1869

  4. The New Deal’s Greenbelt Town Program, 1936-1938 Rexford Tugwell (Director of the Resettlement Administration) and Wallace Richards (head of the Greenbelt Project) inspecting foundations at Greenbelt, Maryland (July 1936, FSA/OWI)

  5. Apartments in Greenbelt, MD(LOC/American Memory) Drawing of commercial center, Greenbelt, MD, 1935/6 (FSA/OWI Collection)

  6. Channel Heights Housing Project, San Pedro, CA-designed by Richard Neutra for the Federal Public Housing Authority, 1942

  7. Political factors: Federal financing of private, single-family home construction 1. Loan guarantees (up to 90%) to builders provided by National Housing Act, 1934 2. Federally insured mortgages to buyers -National Housing Act (1934)—creates FHA: 20% down; 20-year repayment; 5-6% interest -VA loans (1944): 0 down, 30-year repayment -National Housing Act of 1949 further liberalized loan terms

  8. From 1949-54: • The number of home mortgages tripled • 75% of the 4.5 million dwelling units constructed were financed with VA and FHA loans

  9. HOLC map of Philadelphia, 1936, showing “hazardous” (red) neighborhoods

  10. Urban/Suburban Land Use and Average House Size % of landscape Avg home size (sq feet) • 5.9 800 1970 8.7 1200 1990 10.9 2100

  11. Metro Campaign Poster, 1958

  12. Metro’s Wastewater Treatment System

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