![]() (ie 75% of gov't transportation expenditures in the US in the post-WW2 generation went for highways, 1% for urban mass transit mortgage payments tax-deductible but rent payments aren't.)Ģ. Federal housing aid and tax deductions to individuals and infrastructural spending have overwhelmingly favored new suburban communities and outward development. ![]() There was so much amazing info I took 25 screencaps of Kindle pages (I'm happy to send them if you doubt any of the below points! The book itself is only $8 on Amazon btw) but I'll try to sum up important points as follows:ġ. Moreover, it taught me about the pervasive power a conservatism based on selective memory and benign ignorance has to maintain structural inequalities. ![]() The amazing 1987 book "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States" by urban historian Kenneth T. "The US is not only the world's first suburban nation, but it will also be its last." Growing up in suburbia (like most of you) I assumed it was the natural order of things. ![]()
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