The purpose for both essays, is about explaining when a city ages, changes will follow and for some people, this is an issue. It was also showing how the suburbs were started. As an example, within “Suburban Birth Pangs” by, Rosalyn Baxendall and Elisabeth Ewen, they write about life in the mid-1920s and how people within New York City were stating to purchase cars for the first time. Now these people were able to travel outside the city. The new travelers were heading out on the weekends to such places as Long Island. This was an outrage for the locals within Long Island. This enraged the people so much that they started making the roads like mazes and stopped the upkeep trying to keep the city people out. Another example is within, “The Public Realm and the Common Good” by, James Howard Kunstler, he writes about changes to cities with the States, after 1945. The author describes how we have taken main street America and changed it to a suburban wasteland. Main Street was once a district with amazing design qualities to what we know…show more content… This statement is a great example. “In 1930 total housing production receded to a point 60 percent below the 1922–28 average; by 1931 the rate had descended 69 percent below that average. … In 1932 foreclosures reached the disastrous level of 250,000 homes.” I feel that “The Public Realm and the Common Good” was written with personal felling rather than actually facts or sources that back his claims. The author opens his first sentence with “The United States is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, yet its inhabitants are strikingly unhappy.” He continues his paragraph with ideas of trailer parks and crime in the big city. There is nothing backing this, if he would have continued with a percentage or something more tangible I would be more likely to believe his statement, this is shown throughout the whole
