Answering Questions

Prompt #5 In the early 20th century several architects, planners, and social reformers advanced new proposals for rethinking urban form and urban life. Compare and contrast two such proposals: Ebenezer Howard’s Garden Cities of To-morrow (1902) and Le Corbusier’s The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning (1925). What urban models did Howard and Le Corbusier envision? In particular, how did they confront the questions of urban grow Prompt #6 In chapter 10 of Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), Kenneth Jackson wrote: The purpose of this chapter is to look at the impact of federal housing policies on how and where Americans live. More specifically, I seek to determine whether the results of such policies were foreseen by a government anxious to use its power and resources for the social control of ethnic and racial minorities. Has the American government been as benevolent — or at least neutral — as its defenders have claimed? Summarize Jackson’s analysis of American housing policies in the 1930s and discuss, in particular, the practice of “red lining” (pp. 197 ff). How did the practice of redlining affect access to housing and credit? In particular, how did such practice affect ethnic and racial minorities? Did government policies shape or even exacerbate racial disparities? What were the consequences of these policies on inner city neighborhoods? How did American housing policies contribute to the post-w