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Author Fishman, Robert, 1946-

Title Bourgeois utopias : the rise and fall of suburbia / Robert Fishman
Published New York : Basic Books, [1987]
©1987

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Description xii, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- Ch.1. London: birthplace of suburbia -- Ch.2. Building the bourgeois utopia -- Ch.3. The suburb and the industrial city: Manchester --Ch.4. Urbanity versus suburbanity: France and the United States -- Ch.5. The classic suburb: the railroad suburbs of Philadelphia -- Ch.6. Los Angeles: suburban metropolis -- Ch.7. Beyond suburbia: the rise of the technoburb
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 209-228
Subject Suburban homes.
Suburban life.
Suburbs.
Genre/Form Utopian fiction.
LC no. 87047508
ISBN 0465007473 (paperback)
0465007481