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Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war, getting an edge over Commies which they could neither economically nor ideologicall
by anovikov 6y ago
Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war, getting an edge over Commies which they could neither economically nor ideologically afford to replicate.
Commies are long gone, that goal no longer applies, move on.
- strictnein 6y agohttps://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-27cc-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-27cc-a3d9... The Daily Evening Rush Of Suburbanites And Travelers For The Cortlandt Street Ferry, Pennsylvania Railroad. (1899)
- chrisseaton 6y ago> Suburbs were invented with one goal: survive and win an all-out nuclear war This seems historically illiterate, because suburbs came before the Cold War.
- anovikov 6y agoBut suburbanisation properly became a thing with policies of destroying public transport, and redlining that while invented in 1934, started to get massively applied around 1947. Destruction of public transport made living in inner cities more difficult and in suburbs, relatively easier - and redlining made people feel compelled to move out out inner cities.
- chrisseaton 6y ago> started to get massively applied around 1947 Ok but that's not when it was invented, which is what you said.
- throw998 6y ago> Commies are long gone, that goal no longer applies, move on. On the contrary, they are running the asylum