Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Post-WW II Decline of the American City: Racial Tensions and Suburbanization ; Propadanje američkog grada poslije Drugog svjetskog rata: rasne tenzije i suburbanizacija
This thesis examines the period after World War II in the United States with a specific reference to the American city and the suburbia, and their relationship in the context of urban problems in 1950s and 1960s America. The problems concerning the housing crisis, racial segregation, structural and technological changes to the visage of the traditional city all converge in a question of what caused such a major shift in the urban fabric of America and how does it relate to today’s metropolis. Major demographic shifts at the end of World War II indicated great changes to American cities as a wave of African Americans moved into the cities and middle-class white Americans settled at the outskirts of cities in suburbia. Backed by federal legislation which sponsored highway building and cheap housing outside urban centers, cities rapidly lost their middle class and with it, their tax revenue. At the center of it all is the decline of the American city. The main argument is that the relevant government institutions, with their discriminatory and racist practices and legislative acts, amidst tumultuous times, managed to completely change the urban landscape in America. These changes are still influencing the modern American city and will be for the foreseeable future. This historical overview analyses legislative acts concerning housing, highway building and racial segregation from the1950s and 1960s and correlates them to the decay of the American city as well as the rapid evolution in technology and mobility via automobiles which also aided in the process of city depopulation. The analysis of these findings shows that the proliferation of the automobile, building of the interstate highway and cheap housing depopulate cities which was offset only by African Americans settling inner cities. Segregation and white flight accounted for a portion of that depopulation. The implications of these processes are: racial issues remain unanswered to this day; the American city still feels the consequences and faces similar ...
Post-WW II Decline of the American City: Racial Tensions and Suburbanization ; Propadanje američkog grada poslije Drugog svjetskog rata: rasne tenzije i suburbanizacija
This thesis examines the period after World War II in the United States with a specific reference to the American city and the suburbia, and their relationship in the context of urban problems in 1950s and 1960s America. The problems concerning the housing crisis, racial segregation, structural and technological changes to the visage of the traditional city all converge in a question of what caused such a major shift in the urban fabric of America and how does it relate to today’s metropolis. Major demographic shifts at the end of World War II indicated great changes to American cities as a wave of African Americans moved into the cities and middle-class white Americans settled at the outskirts of cities in suburbia. Backed by federal legislation which sponsored highway building and cheap housing outside urban centers, cities rapidly lost their middle class and with it, their tax revenue. At the center of it all is the decline of the American city. The main argument is that the relevant government institutions, with their discriminatory and racist practices and legislative acts, amidst tumultuous times, managed to completely change the urban landscape in America. These changes are still influencing the modern American city and will be for the foreseeable future. This historical overview analyses legislative acts concerning housing, highway building and racial segregation from the1950s and 1960s and correlates them to the decay of the American city as well as the rapid evolution in technology and mobility via automobiles which also aided in the process of city depopulation. The analysis of these findings shows that the proliferation of the automobile, building of the interstate highway and cheap housing depopulate cities which was offset only by African Americans settling inner cities. Segregation and white flight accounted for a portion of that depopulation. The implications of these processes are: racial issues remain unanswered to this day; the American city still feels the consequences and faces similar ...
Post-WW II Decline of the American City: Racial Tensions and Suburbanization ; Propadanje američkog grada poslije Drugog svjetskog rata: rasne tenzije i suburbanizacija
Pleša, Danijel (Autor:in) / Šesnić, Jelena / Vukić, Jana
19.09.2019
Hochschulschrift
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
DDC:
720
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