| Description |
1 online resource (x, 396 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"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 architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe."--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
United States Suburbs, to 1984 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Bancroft Prize, 1986 |
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Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986 |
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| Subject |
Suburbs -- United States -- History
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Suburban life.
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Housing -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Housing.
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Social conditions.
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Suburban life.
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Suburbs.
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Vorstadt
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Suburbanisatie.
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Huisvesting.
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Suburbs -- United States -- History.
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Suburban life -- United States.
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Housing -- United States -- History.
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Logement -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Banlieues -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
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Vie en banlieue.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140511
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United States.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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États-Unis -- Conditions sociales.
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USA.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0199763143 |
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9780199763146 |
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9780199840342 |
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0199840342 |
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