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Llewellyn Park, in West Orange, New Jersey (
above
), and Riverside, Illinois (
next image
), designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, were the first suburbs designed specifically to mimic the bucolic feel of country life.
Courtesy of the Riverside Historical Museum, Riverside, Illinois
©Meyer Leibowitz/
The New York Times
/Redux
The history of the modern-day suburbs begins with Levittown, the massive development on Long Island built immediately after World War II.
©Superstock/Everett Collection
By the mid-1950s, the suburban way was the only way.
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
The earliest U.S. suburbs sprouted organically around railroad stations. With their village-oriented town centers, these suburbs are better positioned for the future than their more modern, subdivision-style counterparts. Here, the Village of Scarsdale, New York, in April 2013.
©Michael Valdez/istockphoto.com
Tract housing developments like these in Las Vegas now blanket much of the country.
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
The strip mall is one of the most identifiable elements of modern-day suburbia. Instead of a centralized downtown, commercial activity takes place in a series of shopping centers like this one on Route 59 in Rockland County, New York.
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
The author’s suburban experience: her family circa 1992 (
above
) and childhood home in Media, Pennsylvania (
next image
).
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
Ralph Nardell Photography
The author’s hometown, Media, has unique elements like a main street lined with boutiques, bars, and restaurants and a working trolley (
above
); a courthouse; and a restored 1927 theater (
next image
).
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
©Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection
The rise and fall of American suburbia has been mirrored in popular culture.
The Wonder Years
depicted idyllic suburban family life in the late 1960s.
Everett Collection
References later turned dark in the 1999 film
American Beauty
.
Michael Desmond/©Showtime/ Everett Collection
In 2005, Showtime debuted
Weeds
, which portrayed the life of a pot-dealing mother in the fictitious suburb of Agrestic, California.
©Leigh Gallagher
In the suburbs of Gaithersburg, Maryland, lies Kentlands, an anti-sprawl community built on principles like narrower streets, a smaller scale, and a mixture of home sizes and types.
©Srenco Photo 2008/Courtesy of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
There are hundreds of New Urbanist communities across the country like Kentlands and New Town at St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri; big commercial builders are now replicating their concepts.
©2010 Minnesota Historical Society
Anti-sprawl activists point to street design at the turn of the century as the ideal. Chuck Marohn, founder of StrongTowns.org, uses this picture of Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1905 in his TED talk to demonstrate a street “that rocks.”
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
Morristown, New Jersey, has given its downtown a dose of urban chic, adding penthouse loft apartments, boutiques, restaurants, and a walkable promenade.
Nancy McLinden/ Pink Olive Photography
In Libertyville, Illinois, John McLinden developed School Street, a neighborhood of twenty-six houses in dense arrangement just off the town’s Main Street. Many buyers are McMansion refugees who tired of the wasted space and relying on their car.
©2010 Belmar Colorado www.belmarcolorado.com
Developers are turning dead suburban shopping malls into residential villages. In Lakewood, Colorado, the old Villa Italia shopping mall is now Belmar, a community with one thousand housing units, as well as restaurants, boutiques, cafés, and outdoor entertainment plazas.
Toll Brothers/www.JimWilsonPhotography.com
Toll Brothers’ big luxury suburban homes—like this one in Southlake, Texas—used to make up 70 to 80 percent of what the company builds and sells. Now it’s more like 50 percent.
Design by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, courtesy of Toll
above
), and Riverside, Illinois (
next image
), designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, were the first suburbs designed specifically to mimic the bucolic feel of country life.
Courtesy of the Riverside Historical Museum, Riverside, Illinois
©Meyer Leibowitz/
The New York Times
/Redux
The history of the modern-day suburbs begins with Levittown, the massive development on Long Island built immediately after World War II.
©Superstock/Everett Collection
By the mid-1950s, the suburban way was the only way.
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
The earliest U.S. suburbs sprouted organically around railroad stations. With their village-oriented town centers, these suburbs are better positioned for the future than their more modern, subdivision-style counterparts. Here, the Village of Scarsdale, New York, in April 2013.
©Michael Valdez/istockphoto.com
Tract housing developments like these in Las Vegas now blanket much of the country.
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
The strip mall is one of the most identifiable elements of modern-day suburbia. Instead of a centralized downtown, commercial activity takes place in a series of shopping centers like this one on Route 59 in Rockland County, New York.
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
The author’s suburban experience: her family circa 1992 (
above
) and childhood home in Media, Pennsylvania (
next image
).
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
Ralph Nardell Photography
The author’s hometown, Media, has unique elements like a main street lined with boutiques, bars, and restaurants and a working trolley (
above
); a courthouse; and a restored 1927 theater (
next image
).
Courtesy of the Gallagher family
©Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection
The rise and fall of American suburbia has been mirrored in popular culture.
The Wonder Years
depicted idyllic suburban family life in the late 1960s.
Everett Collection
References later turned dark in the 1999 film
American Beauty
.
Michael Desmond/©Showtime/ Everett Collection
In 2005, Showtime debuted
Weeds
, which portrayed the life of a pot-dealing mother in the fictitious suburb of Agrestic, California.
©Leigh Gallagher
In the suburbs of Gaithersburg, Maryland, lies Kentlands, an anti-sprawl community built on principles like narrower streets, a smaller scale, and a mixture of home sizes and types.
©Srenco Photo 2008/Courtesy of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
There are hundreds of New Urbanist communities across the country like Kentlands and New Town at St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri; big commercial builders are now replicating their concepts.
©2010 Minnesota Historical Society
Anti-sprawl activists point to street design at the turn of the century as the ideal. Chuck Marohn, founder of StrongTowns.org, uses this picture of Brainerd, Minnesota, in 1905 in his TED talk to demonstrate a street “that rocks.”
©Michelle Wolfe Photography
Morristown, New Jersey, has given its downtown a dose of urban chic, adding penthouse loft apartments, boutiques, restaurants, and a walkable promenade.
Nancy McLinden/ Pink Olive Photography
In Libertyville, Illinois, John McLinden developed School Street, a neighborhood of twenty-six houses in dense arrangement just off the town’s Main Street. Many buyers are McMansion refugees who tired of the wasted space and relying on their car.
©2010 Belmar Colorado www.belmarcolorado.com
Developers are turning dead suburban shopping malls into residential villages. In Lakewood, Colorado, the old Villa Italia shopping mall is now Belmar, a community with one thousand housing units, as well as restaurants, boutiques, cafés, and outdoor entertainment plazas.
Toll Brothers/www.JimWilsonPhotography.com
Toll Brothers’ big luxury suburban homes—like this one in Southlake, Texas—used to make up 70 to 80 percent of what the company builds and sells. Now it’s more like 50 percent.
Design by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc, courtesy of Toll
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