Comments on: Tell us a story about your suburb

By: michele

michele — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:01:50 +0000

I grew up in a Levitt development. It was a perfect place to grow up. Each home was the same size, with the same amount of property, there were several different styles so thye all didn’t look completely alike.
There were sidewalks to ride your bikes on or push a baby carriage, or walk a dog, or roller skate. Everyone knew all the kids in the immediate area and kept an eye on each other and many people did not lock their doors. I was born in the late 50’s. We were several blocks walking distance from food shopping, a swimming pool, the two neighborhood schools and pizza, ice cream and playgrounds. My house was a perfect size for a family of five, one full bathroom, three bedrooms and one half bathroom so we all had to wait to shower, not big deal we survived.
We were always out on the lawn, or playing tag and red rover in the spring and summer in the streets as well as hopscotch and potsie, popping tar bubbles in the summer was great fun. Everyone knew the neighborhood dogs too and saved bones and leftovers. People knock suburbs but for kids, it is a great place to grow up. I currently reside in a townhouse developement in a suburb, there are no sidewalks, my kids can’t ride their bikes without fear of being hit by the endless stream of cars driving in and out. It is still nice because we are attached on both sides and know our neighbors well. Suburbs rock !!!!

By: Janelle Marble

Janelle Marble — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 23:17:26 +0000

I moved to Illinois from western new york about 6-8 months ago
The absurdity of the suburb is a daily occurence for me and for my fiance we often go by and say to each other I just don’t get it.
In october we took my son to a pumkin patch with animals and the whole bit as we went on our tractor ride I started laughing and taking pictures just beyond this patch of land (corn stalks)it was surrounded about 270 degrees by tracts of houses coming from a place where this is not the norm I was awestruck by the sight.

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Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:22:56 +0000

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Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:40:37 +0000

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By: Design » Worlds Away YouTube selections

Design » Worlds Away YouTube selections — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:01:46 +0000

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By: William

William — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:35:31 +0000

The main reason the suburb’s exist, was to provide a form of civilized urban expansion to wide-open sky, fresh air, large parcels’ of land for the home structure. Some of the first suburb’s in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro; such as Edina, Golden Valley, St. Louis Park, and a few more, were so well designed by professional land engineer’s that the environment actually produced a much more positive acknowledgement of urban habitat in general!
The escape from the depth’s of the inner-city problem’s of serious crime, noise pollution, bio-hazard, lack of green, really changed my life. And I was a child in a stately 3-story home by the art institute in the early 1950’s…but that is exactly when the city of Minneapolis and other large cities in America began to change, away from it’s pristine environment for raising families, that it had built a reputation for, towards the problem demographics/statistics, that it has today.
A quality suburban layout has nothing to do with mega-stores and shopping centers. It has everything to do with well-designed residential space. And the artist’s so far in their video attempts have so totally missed this point! It is about standing in a large yard sensing the 4-winds, seeing and touching 180-degrees of blue sky, visually noticing wild life and natural streams, river and creek water. I have all of this. And the artistic appreciation in my life is so much fuller as a result of this.
Because of condensed population in Minneapolis after and just before world war 2, some turned towards the west and made their great escape. Building a better life.

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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:34:04 +0000

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Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:48:11 +0000

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Off Center » User Created, Walker Related — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:51:23 +0000

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