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CIVILA
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The origin of corporate-suburbia city model
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| The problem for any new city model is to find a time and an opportunity to put it into practice. In this case, the immediate post war period in both Europe and the United States present a unique set of circumstances. | ||
| The industry of the United States needed to absorb military personnel back into the workforce. Cheap and mass quality products needed including kit homes and land needed to be available for the re-settlement of troops and their families. | ||
| In Europe and Japan, whole societies needed to be rebuilt and re-equiped with items. | ||
| For corporate America it represented the most unprecedented period of wealth acquisiton in human history. Corporations went from wealthy extensions of individual resource barons to truly multi-national leviathans. | ||
| The motor vehicle presented a unique product in that it not only required a substantial public investment to make it possibel to travel and support its operation, but then land could be opened up for sale and settlement virtually any point. | ||
| Cities no longer needed to be based on an immediate water source. People could travel by motor car any number of miles to get their groceries. | ||
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