1960s URBAN SPRAWL, SUBURBIA & POST-WWII HOUSING BOOM VINTAGE FILM 18604
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Made in 1960 by Arthur Barr, this film presents one of the earliest looks at the tremendous problem of Urban Sprawl. growth in single-family homes begin built outside cities. The growth of suburban regions is (according to the narrator) one of the biggest challenges facing the United States of the 1960s. The desertion of the metropolises' downtowns, and the explosion of suburban populations, was indeed a threat to the health of American cities. Highways, such as Los Angeles' 101 Freeway seen at the 1:44 mark, provided easy access for commuters and helped develop a commuter culture. At 2;11, suburban housing tracts are developed in the San Fernando Valley, replacing farms and farm crops with housing. Mile after mile of housing is seen being built, and along with them come utilities (4:21) such as telephone and electrical cables and pipes.
Early shopping malls are seen at 4:50, including a shopping center with a May Company store and loads of '50s Chevy Belairs in the parking lot. At 6:00, a new subdivision known as "Tropicana Village" is built boasting 10,000 new homes. "Pacific Gardens" seen at 6:06, is in Santa Clara, California. Santa Clara is studied in more detail at the 6:30 mark.
At 8:00, demolition of houses is seen and the construction of new apartment buildings in the city. At 8:50, expressways or highways are seen under construction.
Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl describes the expansion of human populations away from central urban areas into low-density, monofunctional and usually car-dependent communities, in a process called suburbanization. In addition to describing a particular form of urbanization, the term also relates to the social and environmental consequences associated with this development. In Continental Europe the term "peri-urbanisation" is often used to denote similar dynamics and phenomena, although the term urban sprawl is currently being used by the European Environment Agency. There is widespread disagreement about what constitutes sprawl and how to quantify it. For example, some commentators measure sprawl only with the average number of residential units per acre in a given area. But others associate it with decentralization (spread of population without a well-defined centre), discontinuity (leapfrog development, as defined below), segregation of uses, and so forth.
The term urban sprawl is highly politicized, and almost always has negative connotations. It is criticized for causing environmental degradation, and intensifying segregation and undermining the vitality of existing urban areas and attacked on aesthetic grounds. Due to the pejorative meaning of the term, few openly support urban sprawl as such. The term has become a rallying cry for managing urban growth.
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Grew up east side SJ early 60’s
What a wonderful time/place.
Surrounded by orchards and full working dairy’s canneries etc….
Witnessed urban sprawl from Santa Clara county food basket to silicon valley.
Again it was a great childhood
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4:29 I believe that's the May Company at the Eastland Shopping Center in West Covina if I'm not mistaken. I was born in Los Angeles in 1960, and my father worked hard enough to move us out the suburbs and West Covina into one of these new homes being built that they are talking about and we would go as a family of seven children to the May Co. the shopping mall attached. Or we would go across Barranca to the Montgomery Wards. If I could time travel back to tell the future, I would say what Al Jolsen said in 1929, 30 years before my time, "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".
I came to Los Angeles from Brooklyn New York in 1960 as a small child, remember May Company what exclusive store was, Southern California was sure different from New York.
Now it's mostly urban blight, seeing all that beautiful architectural beauty destroyed hurts me
This film, made my Arthur Barr Productions of Pasadena, was released in 1960.
Two factors that weren't addressed...land fill/dumps and cemeteries, on the outskirts of most metro areas, become assimilated into the suburban patchwork as growth continues... You can see where old planners thought the city would stop.
Mid-century archeology. That kind of stuff is really fun to look for
@Horace Coarke hey have you ever even seen a clown before? Because gosh it must be so boring taking everything so seriously! Take a break from the mid-century man's home movies and check out clips from SCTV, its this show from the 70s and 80s about funny folks at a TV station.
These concrete-block-head films are super fun, but get some creative ideas in that noggin of yours too! Much love!💖
When I was living in the city growing up in the early sixties all the land outside the city was all farm land when we took rides in the country we would stop to watch them put up the high voltage towers and wires and power plants for future subdivisions and small towns
10:20 Industry generally moved out of the US, which is part of the issue.
Thanks democrats 😫
@@brosefmcman8264 I thought yer orange jesus fixed this? GTFO
@@brosefmcman8264 you mean thanks capitalism.
In 1960 when a factory moved they went to a different part of town into a new building
@@samueltoler7796 Jimmy Carter pushed NAFTA hes one of the main reasons we lost our economic power. And he was a hardcore democrat.
What is this narrator saying? He hates the suburbs for sure. Does he want us all back in slums of the big cities?
You've got cause and effect mixed up. Because of red-lining and other deliberate policies to speed up this suburban growth, the cities developed slums.
_"Little boxes, on the hillside."_
Man, too bad nobody watched this...
Guess we can't have nice things.
Population more than doubled since this was made. 90% service economy. Die is pretty much cast.
@@FLYEAL I'm just saying 60yrs later were doing things in the exact same dysfunctional way (here in CA anyway)
Ahh, suburbs. I call them "Conformity Communities."
Definitely listen to the 1982 song "Subdivisions" by Rush. It sums up suburban life very well even today.
7:10 I believe this house was on Bunker Hill in Downtown L.A. They cleared that area out by 1969 leaving nothing but the Angels Flight Railway.
Now, it's all high rise offices and condos.
7:48 See that steel tower in background? That was the top of the absolutely beautiful art deco Richfield (now ARCO) Oil Building in downtown Los Angeles.
It would also be gone by the end of the 1960s.
Big cities should be safe, crime free and full of vibrant culture/night life. This is how it is in the rest of the world. Living in the middle of nowhere is not a good life
That's a value judgement. My own judgement places a higher value on quiet nights, clear unobstructed skies and rural surroundings. To each their own.
In theory sure, but in reality the exact opposite is true now.
We lived in the Australian desert town for 10 years
Away from the big shopping centers ect...
I and other guys loved the rugged lifestyle of shooting pigs kangaroo for profit and fun.
Mining for gems $$
Drinking till early morning hours laughing and joking under the clear night skys.
But one problem...
Was no life for a woman...
Women like shopping in big supermarkets with speciality shops and scocal contact with other women.
Women like being services and there's not wrong with that...
So after 10 years we moved in to a semi rural area 20 miles from all that a woman wants not 400 miles.
Dirty drugged out homeless, overflowing garbage, rampant crime, light and noise pollution and highly inflated goods is not a good life! 🤮🤮
Detroit knows how to thin out the suburbs.
urban areas need to walled in and sealed off!!!
It's miserable to build such sprawling low-density residential areas. It made people suffer from soulless long commutes relying on their personal automobile that drains their income. Couldn't the US govt. just build more and subsidize apartments?
Oh i get it this is before people Discovered Then Glock 9mm shotguns
13:20 the availability of water….California and neighboring states weren’t paying attention…
If you see the traffic buildings cars and industrial destruction a wonder the world is not warmer yet .
Check Detroit , Check Michigan , Check NY , Check LA - The Public is Constantly Being Conned
When I questioned the sustainability of Phoenix area growth 25 years ago, I was laughed out of the room. Who gets the last laugh?
@@tomdonegan2610 Phoenix was built on the Salt River. You know, a water source in the desert. It has since far exceeded the river's capacity to support human development.
They do? Phoenix is doing fine. It hasn’t run outta space yet and it’s a popular growth region?
They made this sound bad. The working citizens wanted to escape the crime and congestion of the urban core. Schools became a big part of this, as the cities deteriorated and desegregation took over the public mindset
"Unfortunately, he [developer] seldom has the guidance of an overall plan that relates his subdivision to the total metropolitan development." This is why we need growth management planning that has the force of law. I've exhausted myself trying to persuade local governments to prevent agricultural land from being paved over. Southern California's agricultural areas are a fraction of what they once were. This video is even more depressing to me because there are people who had the foresight to prevent this while still accommodating a growing population. Developers and real estate agents rule the roost in many small communities in states that have weak AF planning laws.
Dearest why don't run for local Philospher Queen you can determine who makes it and who does not. Growth Management? Will be the End of Private Property and a new drain of the big cities. Primarily on the North East and West coasts and of course Chicago. Think about this for a second. You may be getting what you want as everyone who can afford to have no choice but get out of the once great Golden State.
Seriously bored of placeholder looking houses gentrifying everywhere smdh 😒
Are you typing this sitting in your Suburban California home ? 😅😅😅
@@hifistuded No many of us never will never be able live or afford to visit the most beautiful of all United States. I'm a lower member of a vanishing American Middle Class that is been disappearing in the showcase cities of the west coast for decades now.. This is A DISGRACE!
@@jeffreywilliams144 Actually my question was to the original commentor. I am also middle class "legal" immigrant I agree it is getting out of hand even in Texas with the people coming in and the American Dream vanishing even for an immigrant like me who supports US values.
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Be sure to spread that idea on the Internet, which was incubated and developed by that government you want to get rid of.
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This destruction was done in a lot of black communities displaced a lot of communities for highways long established neighborhoods are destroyed
Cookie cutter 🏘️🏘️🏘️🏘️
You mean like apartment buildings?
These old Periscope films are usually pretty interesting, however this one seems to be quite anti-progress.
Sounds like a frustrated urban city planner!
I noticed the same thing. Says how it took over farmland but never show how other areas became new farmland etc
You say this seems anti-progress, but what has happened in California today? Progress has been stymied because we did _not_ listen to the arguments for limits to growth and better planning.
@@brianarbenz1329 Take a look at what is happening now that we oppose urban sprawl as a nation. Home prices are sky rocketing and an entire generation of people has been denied the same quality of life that previous generations experienced. Take a look at the pinnacle of stupidity, infill housing. Demolish one $400,000 home and replace it with two $900,000 homes. That is urban-sprawl-o-phobes solution to housing demand. Rejecting urban sprawl is a rejection of affordable living in quality neighborhoods.
You cant grow in cess pool of death and convince which All Cities became When they started outsourcing city jobs to the counties and rual areas. Families left in drones For A better grain of life,💯