Stephen Friedman writes, "City people have always wanted to escape to the nearby countryside, but only relatively recently, with availability of cheap land and the mobility afforded by the automobile, has this form of living become so widespread." (Friedman, ??)

The history of urban planning is one of continuous change. Two of  the changes attributable to Urban Planning are:

• The migration from rural communities into the city and the exodus from the inner cities to the new outer cities, called suburbs.
  
  

• The increase in automotive transportation contributed to the changes in neighborhood planning.
  
  

Migration One: To The City

As society moved away from a rural agrarian based economic structure to a more industrialized structure, people hoped for:

      1) a better future in the city and

      2) an opportunity for the "excitement" of city life and cultural refinement."

This led those from rural areas to move to the city in search of a future with excitement.

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