145216 Urban environment

This essay invites you to consider suburbanisation as a particular form of housing which was dominant in western cities from after the second world war. The growth of the suburbs went hand in hand with the ideals of the Fordist city; defined by a unique level of mass employment and mass consumption for the upper and working classes. The demand for housing and home ownership grew significantly, as people longed to establish themselves and their families within the new suburban ideal. ? In this essay you are asked to discuss the following themes; ? What were the conditions of the fordist city which gave rise to the suburbs? ? What drove suburbanisation in NZ? What were the different phases of this process? Generally speaking what did early forms (pre 1980s) of suburban housing look like in NZ? Discuss three problems with suburbanisation in the contemporary city today? I anticipate a minimum of 5 scholarly references for this essay. You can include images, if they illustrate well your argument and you cite where you got them from. For example you could have a map or image from Te Ara: The Encyclopaedia of NZ which shows the highly conformist nature of suburban housing in NZ