Book Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Bedford in Context; 3. The Narrative Structures: The Cultural Codes of a Landscape Aesthetic; 4. Anxious Pleasures: Place-Based Identity and the Look of the Land; 5. Legislating Beauty: The Politics of Exclusion; 6. The Taxman Cometh: The Gift of Nature in Suburbia; 7. Fabricating History: The Production of Heritage in Bedford Village; 8. Another Country: Latino Labor and the Politics of Disappearance; 9. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Focusing on an archetypal upper class American suburb, the authors look at how the aesthetics of physical landscapes are fully enmeshed in producing the American class system
