Housing Boom in Cincinnati GIs returning home after World War II were ready to move into new homes. Cincinnatis population shifted to outer suburbs and MSP was often called on to survey subdivisions for new home construction. This mid-century work carried on MSPs long tradition of surveying subdivisions for housing throughout the Cincinnati area.Subdivision survey plats Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1884; and Glendale, Ohio, 1873and inner suburb residents to spread further away from the countrys urban centers. In Cincinnati, Jerry Wald, who worked for the Thomas B. Punshon Engineering Company, recalled traveling from subdivision to subdivision to perform surveys. In Cincinnati, and throughout the country, interstates created a more mobile society. 140 50