ABSTRACT
The street outside the home is viewed, and indeed used, by different generations quite differently. For school children the street is the place they play in, meet their chums in, and provides the setting for various pleasurable activities at weekends and holidays. To the young housewife it is the corridor along which she hurries each day, on foot usually in Britain, in an automobile in America, to fetch the children from school, to get the shopping and, above all, it is the location of her most treasured possession, the home. For much of the year, her husband sees little of the street as he rushes off to work in the morning and returns each evening.
