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East Gate Information
Eastgate is a neighborhood on the eastside of Indianapolis. Once a
flourishing suburb, much of the neighborhood has become blighted. It is best
known as the site of the now defunct Eastgate Consumer Mall.
Suburbs became popular as an opportunity for families to seek an alternative to crowding of central cities. Few families could attain the ideal known as the "American Dream," frequently associated with homeownership, if all metropolitan residents were confined to central-city boundaries. Development activity outside central cities was enabled by innovations in transportation as well as public subsidies that bore the cost of infrastructure such as roads, water, and electricity. The trend toward deconcentrated urban form was further advanced by the advent of automobile culture and the availability of unprecedented amounts of energy in the form of carbon fuels.