Is the Experience of Suburbia Uniquely different to...

In the years following World War II, there was a drastic increase in population in America as a result of the influx of soldiers returning home from the war, which brought on the need for more housing options for them. The modern American suburbs were developed to meet that need. A suburb is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (2014) as â€Å"an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one†. The emergence and development of the suburbs was made easier by the implementing of various zoning laws and advances in transportation. In some older American cities, specifically ones in the northeastern parts of the U.S. â€Å"streetcar suburbs†, which were residential areas in which the primary mode of transportation was the use of streetcar lines, emerged. This system made it easy for workers to go back and forth between their homes in the suburbs and the city centres were majority of the job opportunities were located. The term â€Å"bedroom community† , which meant that all the daytime proceedings took place in the cities and the working population returned to the suburbs at night to go to sleep, was coined for that reason. In 1947 the first major suburban development in the United States emerged. Abraham Levitt, an American entrepreneur along with his two sons began the development in Long Island, New York and over the course of a few years they managed to transform what was formerly farmland into a new community of houses. That first suburban development which became known as