So for Wednesday, I have asked you to read excerpts from Kenneth Jackson’s book Crabgrass Frontiers (see below for a rehash of the assginment.) Here are you some questions for you to think about, and to offer comments on before or (immediately) after class:
1    What was everyday life like for folks living in cities in the 1930s? How did the federal government reshape the housing market in the 1930s and why? What were the HOLC and FHA?
2    Describe public housing of the 1930s. In Cleveland, early examples of public housing were Lakeview Terrace and the Valleyview Homes (now torn down) in Tremont. Who would the typical clientele of these properties have been when they were built; who would it have been by the 1960s? More broadly, who benefited from loan programs, from public housing? What were the long-term consequences of such programs?
3   Write about the baby boom and the pent-up demand for housings; describe the building of Levittown; mull over the five characteristics of suburban development. What were the consequences of change? 
4    How did the interstate highway come into being? Think about and describe the roadside architecture of "drive-in culture": the garage, the motel, the drive-in movie theater, the gasoline service stations, the shopping center, and the mobile home. What do they have in common and how did they develop from the 1920s through the 1980s?

Offer some thoughts on these questions in the comment and prepare to discuss them in class. We will use images to focus our discussion…

Groups 1 & 2: Jackson, “CH11: Federal Subsidy …,” “CH12: The Cost of Good Intentions”
Groups 3, 4, & 5: Jackson, CH13, “The Baby-Boom …,” and “CH14, “The Drive-In Culture …”