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1 online resource (165 pages) |
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Questioning Cities Ser |
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Questioning Cities Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: walking to the coffeehouse; Walk with me to Highland Coffee; References; PART I: The Louisville Highlands: an exemplary boburb; 1. Louisville: the big picture; The rise, fall, and rebirth of the Highlands; Note; References; 2. Boburbia: the vibrant mixed-use community; Who do the boburbs exclude? Who do the boburbs displace?; Boburbia and its alternatives in Louisville; References; 3. How did the Highlands happen? From suburbia to bohemia to boburbia |
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The first fifty years: founding the Falls City, 1778-1830The second fifty years: inventing the Highlands, 1830s to 1880s; The third fifty years: completing the Highlands, 1880s-1930s; The fourth fifty years: the Highlands flourish and decline, 1930-1980; The seed of the boburb; The fifth fifty years: the Highlands reborn as a boburb, 1980-2030; The elephant in the room: race and residence; A walk to all the coffeehouses; References; 4. Why do you live in the Highlands?; Who chooses the Highlands?; References; PART II: Bohemia and suburbia in Louisville |
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5. The Highlands and "the Glens": the suburban alternativesThe automobile suburbs; The gated communities; Note; References; 6. Germantown and Clifton: Bohemia the old-fashioned way; The decline of Germantown as a working-class neighborhood, and its renewal as a bohemia; References; 7. NuLu and Portland: Bohemia on steroids; NuLu; Portland; References; PART III: Varieties of boburbs; 8. Crescent Hill: the bourgeois boburb; References; 9. Norton Commons: the boburb in the fields; References; 10. Russell and Shawnee: imagining a multiracial boburb of the future; References; 11. Boburbs elsewhere |
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Travis Heights, AustinWicker Park, Chicago; Fishtown, Philadelphia; Virginia Highland, Atlanta; The Pearl District, Portland, Oregon; The character of the boburbs; References; PART IV: Between bohemia and suburbia; 12. A measured appreciation of the boburb; Suburbia as the place to raise children; Safety is for children; The suburbs are where married people go; Understanding suburban culture; The boburban project is diversity; Youth as the hinge: are the boburbs the best place for teenagers, or the worst?; Spending privilege vs securing status; Boburbia's greatest strength: social density |
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Boburbs and human flourishingControlled access vs. openness to experience; Why liberal boburbs vs. conservative suburbs?; The deepest difference: trust vs. fear; Note; References; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Neighborhoods -- United States
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Suburbs -- United States.
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Neighborhoods
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Suburbs
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429874369 |
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0429874367 |
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