The topic of suburbanization is a reality in today's world. Over the years, a series of factors emerge that allow the unstoppable development of a community from a small classic city to a widespread reality. Technological advances, immigration, transportation and communication are some of the changing factors that manipulate our lifestyle and shape the way we live, based on our time, our needs and the resources available as a society. You think about how we got to where we are today as a society, we went from using trains and carriages to airplanes and automobiles. We have gone from growing our own food to getting it in supermarkets, where we can find any type of food from anywhere in the world. The importance of individualism is another factor that plays another important role in society and consequently brings with it unlimited freedom. Freedom for people to mobilize, buy, sell and communicate with other people from all over the world. This same evolution of chaos allows for the creation of new ideas among the city's population, new ways of doing things, inventions, production techniques and transportation. At the same time, many different cultures and immigrant classes contribute to the growth of a diverse economy, creating new ways of doing things as old ways of life are evaporated and destroyed. In this case we analyze New Haven, a city that in the early days emerged from an economic development based on the primitive use of water as a source of production, up to the use of steam machinery. In the blink of an eye the city went from urbanization to suburbanization. Some would say that the expansion of a city can only bring prosperity without taking into account that the development factors themselves could turn seriously against it, and cont...... middle of paper ......, as has had television's power to influence the past, present and future of American cities. They have contributed to technological progress in cities but at the same time to the destruction of urbanism. Urbanization and suburbanization clearly demonstrate the changing forces affecting society. New Haven was a perfect example that clearly describes how urban planning has reached its end. The way we use technology, communications, electricity, water and other resources shapes how we live today and how we will live in future years. For many, the search for new discoveries creates excitement and may even fool us into believing that cities are growing in the right direction, as New Haven once believed. Today we can appreciate how individualism has grown through the way cities are organized today. As a society, we now want open, peaceful, solitary spaces to live in.