‘Population, Urban and Rural Life’ Archives
Outdoor Spaces
Outdoor Spaces Pastoral ideals embodied in the stately mansions of Jefferson and Washington created a baronial relationship to the landscape difficult to replicate in mass housing. Yet the cultural ideal of the private, detached home, its domestic and public spaces, scarcely ends at the door. A well-tended grass front lawn, for example, became [...]
Middle Class in United States
Middle Class in United States In his 2000 campaign, George W.Bush vowed to “tear down the tollbooths to the middle class” and “let everyone get a piece of the American dream.” The middle class represents the unmarked, “unbounded” class in postwar American society as earlier success stories have expanded with new mobility, migration [...]
High-Conflict Divorces
High-Conflict Divorces Although divorce presents challenges for all children, particular family dynamics associated with high-conflict divorces have been shown to influence child outcomes. How and to what degree of success parents negotiate their continued relationship has been found to have a significant impact on young children’s [...]
Advice Columnists
Advice Columnists Advice columnists have been a staple of American newspaper copy in the twentieth century, particu larly in sections of the newspaper that cater to women’s interests. Generally women themselves, advice columnists often respond to letters from their readers. These letters ask about some personal or family issue, such as [...]
Supermarkets
Supermarkets Supermarkets are large, self-service retail stores offering a wide variety of foods, beverages, and household items. Grocery stores expanded in the 1950s to meet divergent consumer needs in addition to the staples like BREAD, EGGS, MILK, flour, and meat products. Modern supermarkets offer exotic fruit, snack foods, fish markets, [...]
Catherine Bauer
Catherine Bauer (1905–1964) Catherine Bauer (Wurster)—houser, town planner, lobbyist, teacher, and author—played a significant role in shaping American housing policy from 1931 to 1957. Born in 1905 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Catherine Bauer was graduated from Vassar College in 1927. Touring Europe in 1928, she became intrigued by the [...]
Suburbanization
Suburbs usually are defined as politically independent jurisdictions located outside of a larger central city but still sharing social or economic ties with the city. Suburbs, together with the central city, comprise the larger metropolitan area. Suburbs have existed in some form since antiquity, but during ancient times only the less well-off [...]
Rent Gap
Rent Gap One of the more popular explanations for gentrification, the rent gap hypothesis first advocated by Neil Smith, approaches this issue in terms of the profitability of land in the urban core. In centrally located sites, actualized ground rents generally decline over time as the buildings and infrastructure age. During the post–World [...]
Periods of Urbanization
Periods of Urbanization Human society can be said to have passed through a series of fundamental technological developments in exploiting Earth resources—chiefly the invention of agriculture, the discovery of trade, and the perfection of industrial manufacture—with urban centers playing an increasing role at each stage. This view led some [...]
Uneven Development
Uneven Development Uneven development refers to the unequal distribution of people, resources, and wealth that is a fundamental characteristic of human geography. Uneven development is evident at the global, regional, national, and urban scales. Concern with uneven development stems from the fact that vast differences in human well-being [...]
