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  • . THE INTERURBAN SYSTEM In the late 19th and first half of the 20th century, electric powered interurban transport played an important role in the development of the suburb.
  • . Interurbans had major impacts on suburban New York, Columbus, Cincinnati and most northeastern and Midwest cities.
  • . The growth of the suburbs due to interurban systems changed the landscape of America.



    A Bio. of America: The Twenties - Transcript
  • . It had a busy downtown surrounded by streetcar suburbs.
  • . But LA was a sprawling suburban city before the introduction of the Model T.
  • . Its suburbs were created not by the car but by the trolley car.
  • . While this was going on, Los Angeles expanded in an orderly manner, along its radiating rail lines, which connected the suburbs to the downtown.
  • . It called for the creation of a new type of city, a decentralized metropolis of suburban businesses, strip malls, and garden suburbs, all connected by wide, well-paved roads.
  • . The City Club merely expressed the desire of thousands of people drawn, like most other Americans would soon be drawn, to the double dream of a car and a home in the suburbs.



    FLP - Philadelphia Trolleys: Exhibition
  • . This line would soon open with service from the ferry terminals on Delaware Avenue to an interchange with suburban trolley lines and 69th Street.
  • . From here, one could go not only to suburban locations like Jenkintown and Ambler but also to New York, Bethlehem, and Toronto.
  • . Shown here is a "Glenside" car (named for the suburb that the route went through on its way from Center City), just one of many lines that served the park.
  • . Trolley service continued when the park was closed as Willow Grove was an important interchange point between city and suburban transit lines.



    10/12/04, Trolley Day - Almanac, Vol. 51, No. 7
  • . Federally designated as a "historic trolley car suburb, " much of University City retains the streets, trains, housing, institutions, and parks that were constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • . • Experience West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District in style (as you travel through portions of the Cedar Park and Spruce Hill neighborhoods still laced with functioning trolley tracks, a prime factor for their original development and one of the special amenities and opportunities for their future desirability for living in the 21st century).

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    America on the Move | Introduction
  • . As you walk from one end of the streetcar to the other, you move from the city center to the suburbs.
  • . Many white city dwellers moved to new trolley suburbs; streetcars made it easy to travel greater distances to work, shop, and socialize in town.
  • . Real estate developers often built streetcar lines to promote new suburban communities.
  • . Their success in selling the suburbs to middle-class workers changed neighborhood life and the rhythms of the city.


    America on the Move | Fares, Please!
  • . Trolley lines created the modern suburb and the commuter and enabled people to live farther from their jobs in the commercial center of the city.


    Washington Vintage Trolley Systems by John Smatlak
  • . An emerging suburb of Seattle, Issaquah is suffering from the same congestion problems that have plagued other former rural villages turned suburbs.


    calendarlive.com: L.A. THEN AND NOW - Did auto, oil conspiracy put the brakes on trolleys?
  • . The consortium of General Motors, Standard Oil, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Phillips Petroleum and Mack Truck Manufacturing Co., in turn, blamed the Red and Yellow cars' demise on Angelenos' love of their automobiles, arguing that residents had grown increasingly irate over the streetcars' overcrowding, high fares, aging equipment, accidents and inadequate routes into the new suburban reaches of Los Angeles.
  • . That line eventually was bought up by Huntington's Pacific Electric Railway, which Huntington began building in 1901 -- primarily so people could reach his new suburbs and buy the homes he was building across the vast valley of Los Angeles and beyond.
  • . In the 1920s, as Los Angeles grew and residents and businesses began moving to the suburbs, people began to rely more and more on the automobile for transportation rather than the aging trolley system.
  • . By then, the far-flung suburbs were crisscrossed by cars, highways and a few freeways, and the so-called conspiracy plot simply applied the coup de grace to a dying system.

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    Resources - Lessons from Vancouver - 06 October 2005
  • . Its trolley-car suburbs have engendered densities that any Australian public transport planner would envy.
  • . Vancouver's outer suburbs are not to well served; its only commuter railway only runs during morning and afternoon peak hours.
  • . Investors, used to the noise of Hong Kong or Shanghai might be inured, but aged suburbanites moving into the inner city will find it takes a lot of getting used to.
  • . Delightful mountain walks beyond the city, accessible within half an hour by public transport, mean that both locals and visitors can get into the forest promptly - a merit of a relatively compact city with an effective boundary on suburban development.
  • . The trolley buses, along with low speed limits and a respect for pedestrians unknown in Australian cities, continue to civilise the inner suburbs, creating intimate streetscapes not unlike Melbourne's tram streets.
  • . Large recreational vehicles and giant utility trucks stalk streets where car based shopping centres are the main landmarks in the flatter outer suburbs.


    Angeleno Heights Trolley Line: History
  • . in downtown and ran out to a recently created sub-division, our city’s first suburb, Angeleno Heights.


    Angeleno Heights Trolley Line: Intro
  • . 1944   Angeleno Heights - The First Suburb Of Los Angeles.


    BlogOpolis: Six Suburban Eras of the United States
  • . Monday, April 25, 2005 Six Suburban Eras of the United States Metropolitan Institute at Virginia TechThe Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech (MI) is doing so much historical work on the suburbs that its staff constructed a timeline to show the flow of suburban eras and types (See ).
  • . The purpose of the timeline is to define periods of suburban development in order to establish common base years for MI data and historical analysis.
  • . For example, Robert is publishing an article in the Journal of the American Planning Association that looks at the "new suburban metropolis, " which dates from 1970 to 2010.
  • . Several other planned MI projects will focus on the "mid-century suburbs, " dating from 1930 to 1970.
  • . MI divides the suburban historical flow into six eras.
  • . The timeline also indicates some exemplar suburbs of each period and touches on key political changes and technological innovations.
  • . We see multiple forces propelling suburban change and are especially concerned with understanding how cultural influences shaped the course of evolution.The timeline reflects current thinking on the suburbs and incorporates the work of many historians including Robert Fishman, Delores Hayden, Kenneth Jackson, Chester Liebs, Richard Longstreth, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr.

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    THE ELECTRIC TROLLEY ERA BEGINS

  • . This sparked a major housing boom in the suburbs.
  • . So, the electric trolley is credited with moving the people who built our modern cities, and developing and populating the suburbs, as we know them today.


    THE ELECTRIC TROLLEY ERA BEGINS
  • . This sparked a major housing boom in the suburbs.
  • . So, the electric trolley is credited with moving the people who built our modern cities, and developing and populating the suburbs, as we know them today.
  • . Some of these commuters, are probably from the suburban areas, created by the convenience of electric street railway transportation.


    Boston Real Estate News :: Brighton, the "Street Car Suburb"
  • Helpful Links Month Archive Search Next: Brighton, the "Street Car Suburb" by on Mon 13 Mar 2006 12:32 PM PST | Brighton, “the street car suburb” is a Boston neighborhood at the city's western edge.
  • . The increased use of the electric trolley allowed Brighton to thrive as a residential suburb.


    The Return of the Ithaca Trolley
  • . The alternative to rails is more random destruction of farmland and wetland, for highways to suburbs.


    Historic Preservation Society of Durham, North Carolina - Old Durham Tour
  • For more information about the Historic Preservation Society of Durham please contact HPSD at (919)-682-3036 or by 10th Annual Old Durham TourExplores Old North Durham NeighborhoodSaturday, May 6 Tour graphics by Flywheel Design HPSD hosted its 10th annual Old Durham Tour on May 6th, 2006 when members and friends explored the architectural highlights and history of Old North Durham, one of the Bull City's earliest street car suburbs.
  • . About Old North Durham When Old North Durham was new it was one of Durham's earliest recognized suburbs .
  • . The audience enjoyed stories of their youth and learned more about the original pioneers of this important suburb in a lively question and answer session! FREE.

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