Kristi Johnson
Honr159j
May 8,1996

The suburb of Greenbelt, Maryland was originally created to link the country and city in the area of Washington, D.C. Greenbelt was to be an ideal town with a natural setting, but not lacking all of the opportunities the city offers. When the Greenbelt community was created, there were 12,000 applicants and only 885 were selected. This selection process heavily relied on certain criteria. Families with certain incomes and characteristics, were selected over others. Even after the selection was made, families of Greenbelt were told where to live according to the number of people they were to live with. This exclusion of families in Greenbelt is very typical, as it portrays the importance of the nuclear family in suburbia. The selection process seemed to form a very close-knit group of people and a community willing to work together. This may have had to do with the government's selection to make this a very homogeneous group. Did these selections make Greenbelt a better place? Read on to find out.