Malvina Reynolds wrote “Little Boxes” in the early 1960s. The song was inspired by Reynolds driving past “rows of lookalike pastel-hued houses in a new suburban housing tract in the Bay Area.” What comes into your mind when you see these types of houses
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From CityLab:
Reynolds saw the cookie-cutter houses as both symbols and shapers of the conformist mindset of the people who lived in them—doctors and lawyers who aspired to nothing more than playing golf and raising children who would one day inhabit “ticky-tacky” boxes of their own.
But she was not right about who lived in this suburb just south of San Francisco (named Daly City). It was neither doctors nor lawyers who lived there, but working class and lower-middle class “who were the last group to get in on the postwar housing boom.”
Suburbs have a rich history in themselves. Although sometimes, their stories are not told completely.
What is their rich history? Find out in this interesting article by Amanda Kolson Hurley over at CityLab.
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Source: neatorama