Conclusion
Greenbelt was a town
which was based on the ideal of "community" from its birth by the Federal
Government. Community, in Greenbelt's sense of the word, meant that its
citizens had to be involved in as many organizations as possible in order
to make the city one that knew all of its neighbors and interacted with
them daily. Suburbia was based on this idea because people wanted an area
where they had friendly neighbors and both their kids and themselves could
be interactive with the town in both recreational ways and productive ways
also.
All of the organizations
that I analyzed were part of the
suburban
ideal as well as part of the city of Greenbelt. They each had ways for
the community to be
active in terms of what happened in the city, the children of the area,
what went on in their
neighbors lives, and the activities that occurred in their lives.
Families who
moved to the suburbs in the 1930's wanted all of these things because the
suburban ideas gave them control of their town and if they had control
then their children could grow up where it was safe and the family could
be generally content.
Greenbelt was the perfect
suburbia for the people who moved there. It gave them everything they
wanted, especially in terms of activities to engage in. There was an
organization for everything and everyone in order to not just make
Greenbelt a community, but an involved community.