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Suburb Boom

Watch a metro area grow from 1945 to today on aerial images as highways, home loans and zoning rules arrive and decide who can buy where; farms become subdivisions, wetlands are paved and later flood, and students change one decision to see the pattern shift.

Play style: Simulator
Module: Suburb Boom: How highways, loans and zoning reshaped cities and land
Grade: Grade 11 · Social Studies
Standards: D2.Geo.4.9-12 D2.Geo.6.9-12 D2.Geo.8.9-12

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