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A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation. Such suburbs developed in the United States in the years before the automobile, when the introduction of the electric trolley or streetcar allowed the nation’s burgeoning middle class to move beyond the central city’s borders. [1]
The first published discussion of psychogeography was in the Lettrist journal Potlatch (1954), which included a 'Psychogeographical Game of the Week': Depending on what you are after, choose an area, a more or less populous city, a more or less lively street. Build a house. Furnish it. Make the most of its decoration and surroundings.
This category lists streetcar suburbs: communities whose growth and development is or was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines, cable cars or tram routes as a primary means of transportation.
The West Philadelphia Streetcar Suburb Historic District is an area of West Philadelphia listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It represented the transformation of Philadelphia's rural farmland into urban residential development, made possible by the streetcar , which provided easy access to Center City . [ 2 ]
Electric streetcars arrived in 1889, [1] and the city added new "streetcar suburbs". The city's elite black colleges were founded between 1865 and 1885, and despite disenfranchisement and the later imposition of Jim Crow laws in the 1910s, a prosperous black middle class and upper class emerged.
4. Chain Restaurants Are the Norm. If you're living in a city, there's a good chance you're surrounded by neighborhood restaurants that you can't find anywhere else. In the suburbs, you are likely ...
A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area which is predominantly residential and within commuting distance of a large city. [1] Suburbs can have their own political or legal jurisdictions, especially in the United States, but this is not always the case, especially in the United Kingdom, where most suburbs are ...
The streetcar began running in February 1891 [7] as only the second electric streetcar system in Texas. [ 6 ] The first year of the new company was tumultuous and Shipe faced significant competition from Austin's established mule-drawn streetcar operators, especially the Austin City Railroad Company which had been running since 1874.