Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States

Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.

"This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how 'the good life' in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and arch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jackson, Kenneth T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, New York : Oxford University Press, ©1985.
Subjects:
Suburbs > United States > History.
Suburban life.
Housing > United States > History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Housing
Social conditions
Suburban life
Suburbs
Vorstadt
Suburbanisatie.
Huisvesting.
Suburban life > United States.
Logement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Banlieues > États-Unis > Histoire.
Vie en banlieue.
United States > Social conditions.
United States
USA
États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Suburbs as slums
  • Transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city
  • Home, sweet home: the house and the yard
  • Romantic suburbs
  • Main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads
  • Time of the trolley
  • Affordable homes for the common man
  • Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation
  • New age of automobility
  • Suburban development between the wars
  • Federal subsidy and the suburban dream: how Washington changed the American housing market
  • Cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States
  • Baby boom and the age of the subdivision
  • Drive-in culture of contemporary America
  • Loss of community in metropolitan America
  • Retrospect and prospect.

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