Hence, the construction of Greenbelt has characterized the technoburbian ordeal. Through the employment of over thirteen thousand workers, Greenbelt has become a beautiful, self-sufficient community, filled with stores, businesses, and shops of its own. The Greenbelt project was a success, for it accurately provided "work relief, low-cost housing, long term community planning, and subsistence farming" (Greenbelt).Though Robert Fishman argues for city life, I think a suburb needs to be economically self-sufficient. After all, the reason suburbia was created was to get away from the city. In order to be fully detached from such a place, a community needs to be able to take care of themselves. That was the general philosophy behind the Greenbelt towns. By hiring thousands of laborers, two goals were accomplished. First, it pulled approximately thirteen thousand people out of unemployment. Second, it created an attractive community that was able to stand on its own. Therefore, construction of Greenbelt was an absolute success.

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