Thomas Hardy once said, “If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.” In this case the worst is suburbia, it cased oil depletion and the collapse of the American Dream. life in the suburbs has it`s good and bad moments. American love suburbia, because it has promised space, affordability, convenient, family life, and upward mobility. More than half of the population have moved to suburbs; as they move sprawl explodes so too the suburban way of life. It has become impeded in American`s consciousness and became the American dream. As we enter the 21th century serious question are emerging about the sustainability and the new way of life; Does it have a future?
America with its Post war wealthy has invested in a project with no future, if the age of oil end the new way of life ends as well. The city had many factories, industries, pollution so no one wanted to life there anymore. Before WWI street car
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they were discovering things in the 1930s so fast that oil in Texas was cheaper than drinking water! The car companies quickly become the engine of the US industry and economic growth. The results of this was creating this new system of habitation where people live miles and miles away from where they work, from where they get their food, and all their other necessities. Based on the idea that they can and must get in their car at any moment and travel mils and miles only because of the cheap energy. In north America, we expect gas to heat our homes, be available in gas stations for cars. It has made our contemporary life possible.
Everything from train, buses, cars, trucks are heating in the winter and cooling in the summer are all depended on cheap and reliable fossil fuel energy. There is no other way of life that uses as much as suburbia. It is cheap and abounded fossil fuel that pave, lubricate, and drive the growth of our suburban movement on and on to