How Garden Cities Became the Standard for the Development of American Suburbs

Each generation has its Babbitts and its Ebenezers, but each generation has its own characteristics that affect the whole process of urbanization while that generation is in power. The seminal decisions of the US Supreme Court help to determine the shape and feel of urbanized nation can be usefully interpreted as the product of the generation dominant on the Court at the time. The purpose for unfold plot is to describe how the real-world Babbitts instrumented and structured cities and suburbs in the period from 1900 to 1930. The most exciting and intellectually rewarding challenges in this book is to identify the thought-patterns of the primary generation at certain critical junctures in the twentieth century. It is clear that the Progressive and Missionary generations were most influential during the first third of the twentieth century, the Lost and GI generations during the middle third, and the GI, Silent, and Boom generations after 1968.