Streetcar lines began to stretch out from the booming manufacturing city of Springfield, Ma., reaching once rural areas and turning them into suburbs, such as Longmeadow, where a line was built in ...

Streetcar suburbs took off in the 1890s. Streetcar systems were affordable to ride and relatively reliable (like the system in Del Ray, Virginia, as shown in the WETA Neighborhoods video clip below ...

Streetcar systems are making an incredible comeback in American cities. But rather than being utilized as a tool for creating increased access to jobs and housing, they're being used to stimulate ...

A streetcar suburb...kind of. The early history of Fairmount, which had previously been home to cattle and dairy farms, followed a pattern seen around Richmond in the 1890s.

Streetcar Suburb and Middle Class Affluence lesson plan. During the so-called Gilded Age that followed the Civil War, U.S. cities grew rapidly as business owners built their factories in cities with ...

Charlotte, North Carolina used to have streetcars — first horse-drawn, then electric — that took people to work and play. Development boomed as “streetcar suburbs” popped up along its routes.

Car-dependent suburbs suck. But that doesn't mean that all suburbs suck. It is possible to build suburbs that don't suck, and the US and Canada used to design great suburbs all the time. But even ...

The Cannon Streetcar Suburb is hoping to get the distinction complete by summer 2021. After a break in the process due to the pandemic, the historic preservation office is planning to restart ...

Residents are now celebrating 100 years of the “streetcar suburb,” starting from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 2 with a free picnic, music and games at Walker Johnson Park in Urbandale.