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Jackson Kenneth T |
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Crabgrass Frontier [[electronic resource] ] : The Suburbanization of the United States |
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Oxford University Press, USA, 1985 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (433 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology & Social History |
Social Sciences |
Communities - Urban Groups |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Suburbs As Slums; 2. The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City; 3. Home, Sweet Home: The House and the Yard; 4. Romantic Suburbs; 5. The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads; 6. The Time of the Trolley; 7. Affordable Homes for the Common Man; 8. Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation; 9. The New Age of Automobility; 10. Suburban Development Between the Wars; 11. Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market |
12. The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States13. The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision; 14. The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America; 15. The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America; 16. Retrospect and Prospect; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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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 |
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