Levittowns: cookie cutter model for city development
- developed as response to demand for suburb houses from GI Bill
GI Bill had huge positive impact because each house -> like 5 jobs -> high employment
Interstate Hwy Act also had huge positive impact -> transportation x9000
Latin American City model
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Models Palo Alto
- University Ave -> CBD
- Further from University -> lower income
- gentrification
- Industrial Park: Facebook, etc
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Favelas in South American are built for young men looking to work
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lots of violence
- people have better guns than police
Southeast Asian City Model
- port based
- radiates out from port
- government zone near port -> collect tariffs
- commercial zone near port -> for foreigners
- very western
- mixed use area comes from original agrarian city development -> port city
- some offices near sea -> see shipments
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