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60 relations: African Americans, Altstadt, American Civil War, Andrew Jackson Downing, Babbitt (novel), Bancroft Award, Boston, Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873, Brookline, Massachusetts, Cable car, Calvert Vaux, Car, Catharine Beecher, Central business district, Columbia University, Confidence trick, Country club, Elevated railway, Ellis Island, Environmental racism, Eric A. Morris, Federal Housing Administration, Francis Parkman Prize, Frank J. Sprague, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Chicago Fire, Great Depression, History, Home Owners' Loan Corporation, Horsecar, Industrial Revolution, Interstate Highway System, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, Kenneth T. Jackson, Labor history of the United States, Lawn, Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, Levittown, New York, Municipal annexation in the United States, New Deal, New York City, Oxford University Press, Redlining, Rent regulation, Sinclair Lewis, Soap, Steam locomotive, Streetcar suburb, Suburbanization, Tanning (leather), ..., Timber framing, Time (magazine), Truck, Urban planning, VA loan, War Industries Board, White flight, White privilege, William Levitt, World War II. Expand index (10 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Altstadt
Altstadt is the German language word for "old town", and generally refers to the historical town or city centre within the old town or city wall, in contrast to younger suburbs outside.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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Andrew Jackson Downing
Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine (1846–52).
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Babbitt (novel)
Babbitt (1922), by Sinclair Lewis, is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity.
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Bancroft Award
The Bancroft Award is an award of the Royal Society of Canada "given for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject".
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Boston–Brookline annexation debate of 1873
On October 7, 1873, Brookline, Massachusetts rejected annexation by a larger neighboring city when it voted down annexation by Boston.
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Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, in the United States, and is a part of Greater Boston.
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Cable car
A cable car is any of a variety of cable transportation systems relying on cables to pull vehicles along or lower them at a steady rate.
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Calvert Vaux
Calvert Vaux (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was a British-American architect and landscape designer.
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Car
A car (or automobile) is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transportation.
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Catharine Beecher
Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6, 1800 – May 12, 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education.
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Central business district
A central business district (CBD) is the commercial and business centre of a city.
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Columbia University
Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.
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Confidence trick
A confidence trick (synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam and stratagem) is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence, used in the classical sense of trust.
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Country club
A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.
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Elevated railway
An elevated railway (also known as an El rail, El train or simply an El for short, and, in Europe, as an overhead railway) is a rapid transit railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure (usually constructed of steel, concrete, or brick).
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Ellis Island
Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station for over 60 years from 1892 until 1954.
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Environmental racism
Environmental racism is a term used to describe environmental injustice within a racialized context.
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Eric A. Morris
Eric A. Morris is an assistant professor of city and regional planning, specializing in transportation, at Clemson University, and a former television writer.
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Federal Housing Administration
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is a United States government agency created in part by the National Housing Act of 1934.
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Francis Parkman Prize
The Francis Parkman Prize, named after Francis Parkman, is awarded by the Society of American Historians for the best book in American history each year.
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Frank J. Sprague
Frank Julian Sprague (July 25, 1857 in Milford, Connecticut – October 25, 1934) was an American naval officer and inventor who contributed to the development of the electric motor, electric railways, and electric elevators.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Home Owners' Loan Corporation
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) was a government-sponsored corporation created as part of the New Deal.
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Horsecar
A horsecar, or horse-drawn tram, is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Interstate Highway System
The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.
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James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician.
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Kenneth T. Jackson
Kenneth Terry Jackson (born 1939) is a professor of history and social sciences at Columbia University.
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Labor history of the United States
The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States.
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Lawn
A lawn is an area of soil-covered land planted with grasses and other durable plants such as clover which are maintained at a short height with a lawnmower and used for aesthetic and recreational purposes.
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Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis
Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.
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Levittown, New York
Levittown, formerly Island Trees, is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York on Long Island.
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Municipal annexation in the United States
Municipal annexation is a process by which a municipality expands its boundaries into adjacent areas not already incorporated into the municipality.
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Redlining
In the United States, redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices.
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Rent regulation
Rent regulation is a system of laws, administered by a court or a public authority, which aim to ensure the quality and affordability of housing and tenancies on the rental market for land.
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Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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Soap
Soap is the term for a salt of a fatty acid or for a variety of cleansing and lubricating products produced from such a substance.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Streetcar suburb
A streetcar suburb is a residential community whose growth and development was strongly shaped by the use of streetcar lines as a primary means of transportation.
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Suburbanization
Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in the formation of (sub)urban sprawl.
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Tanning (leather)
Tanned leather in Marrakesh Tanning is the process of treating skins and hides of animals to produce leather.
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Timber framing
Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Truck
A truck or lorry is a motor vehicle designed to transport cargo.
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Urban planning
Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.
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VA loan
A VA loan is a mortgage loan in the United States guaranteed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
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War Industries Board
The War Industries Board (WIB) was a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department (Department of the Army) and the Navy Department.
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White flight
White flight is a term that originated in the United States, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.
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White privilege
White privilege (or white skin privilege) is the societal privilege that benefits people whom society identifies as white in some countries, beyond what is commonly experienced by non-white people under the same social, political, or economic circumstances.
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William Levitt
William Jaird Levitt (February 11, 1907 – January 28, 1994) was an American real-estate developer.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabgrass_Frontier
