LEADER 03024nam 22005293u 450 001 9910453459403321 005 20210107015302.0 010 $a0-19-976314-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001204586 035 $a(EBL)679340 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001143729 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12480846 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001143729 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11111865 035 $a(PQKB)10775433 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC679340 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001204586 100 $a20151123d1985|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrabgrass Frontier$b[electronic resource] $eThe Suburbanization of the United States 210 $cOxford University Press, USA$d1985 215 $a1 online resource (433 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-504983-7 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a12. 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 330 $aThis 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 t 606 $aSociology & Social History$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aCommunities - Urban Groups$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aSociology & Social History 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aCommunities - Urban Groups 676 $a307.740973 700 $aJackson$b Kenneth T$0129794 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453459403321 996 $aCRABGRASS FRONTIER$9450965 997 $aUNINA