At its height in the early 1920s, the Twin City Rapid Transit Company operated more than 900 streetcars. The last one ran in 1954.

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 ...

You can still see many examples of the popular and affordable bungalow courts and apartment courts that sprouted up in the ...

More than a century ago, streetcars opened the way to the suburbs as a burgeoning middle class began to leave behind downtown when finishing work each day. Streetcars are generally long gone ...

1. How did the development of the streetcar impact neighborhoods east of downtown? 2. Why did the neighborhood sprawl grow to the east during the 1890s through the 1920s? What was going on in areas in ...

Streetcar and automobile suburbs developed very different landscapes and both have been modified over time. Despite considerable variation, streetcar suburbs produced a smaller and more dense ...

If You Lived Here. A Streetcar Suburb Transformed. Clip: Season 3 Episode 11 | 2m 24s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Mt. Rainier, Maryland residents discuss the transformation of their community.

The boom of exclusive streetcar suburb development was driven by elite flight from the inner city and its growing slums. After the Civil War, Black people newly freed from enslavement streamed ...

Suburbs began to be developed beyond the half-mile circle around Statehouse Square. The process begun by horse-drawn streetcars moved even faster with the advent of electrified streetcars in 1890.

The suburbs are home to the vast majority of Americans, including millennials priced out of cities. But the car-centrism and separation of homes and commercial hubs exacerbate the worst of suburbia.

Streetcar routes expanded rapidly during the 1890s and the early years of the twentieth century, facilitating the explosive growth of Fort Worth’s streetcar suburbs.