As the United States emerged from World War II, suburbs began to spring up with amazing speed. They were advertised as the perfect place to live - a utopia in which the family would flourish. The suburbs, with their promise of an escape from the ills of city life, were not entirely new. Suburbs had already appeared next to major American cities by the middle of the nineteenth century.But there were distinctly new aspects to the expansion of suburbia in the United States between 1945 and 1960, qualities that you will discover in the following documents.