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Author |
: Robert Cervero |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 232 |
Release |
: 1989-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0044453337 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780044453338 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Suburban Centers by : Robert Cervero
Author |
: Robert Cervero |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2018-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351048026 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351048023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Suburban Centers by : Robert Cervero
Originally published in 1989, America’s Suburban Centers looks at how America’s suburban workplaces are being increasingly designed for automobiles rather than people. The emergence of sprawling office complexes devoid of housing, shops and other facilities is giving rise to regional congestion problems because of the ever-greater dependence on automobiles. This book argues that the low-density, single-use, and non-integrated character of America’s suburban centers is a root cause of declining levels of mobility and worsening traffic congestion.
Author |
: Robert A. Beauregard |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2006-08-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452909134 |
ISBN-13 |
: 145290913X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis When America Became Suburban by : Robert A. Beauregard
In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In When America Became Suburban, Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. When America Became Suburban brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity. Robert A. Beauregard is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and editor of Economic Restructuring and Political Response and Atop the Urban Hierarchy.
Author |
: J. John Palen |
Publisher |
: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105016280252 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Suburbs by : J. John Palen
In spite of more Americans now being suburbanites than city residents, there is very little written on suburbs. In terms of overall analysis (rather than single case studies) there are only a handful of urban histories of 19th-century suburbs, and most of these were written over a decade ago.
Author |
: Jan Nijman |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487520779 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487520778 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of the North American Suburbs by : Jan Nijman
This is the first comprehensive look at the role of North American suburbs in the last half century, departing from traditional and outdated notions of American suburbia.
Author |
: Robert Cervero |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: NWU:35556021464359 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis America's Suburban Centers by : Robert Cervero
Author |
: Jon C. Teaford |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2020-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000143638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000143635 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Suburb by : Jon C. Teaford
The American Suburb: The Basics is a compact, readable introduction to the origins and contemporary realities of the American suburb. Teaford provides an account of contemporary American suburbia, examining its rise, its diversity, its commercial life, its government, and its housing issues. While offering a wide-ranging yet detailed account of the dominant way of life in America today, Teaford also explores current debates regarding suburbia’s future. Americans live in suburbia, and this essential survey explains the all-important world in which they live, shop, play, and work.
Author |
: John Kramer |
Publisher |
: Berkeley : Glendessary Press |
Total Pages |
: 360 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015020386697 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis North American Suburbs by : John Kramer
Author |
: Leigh Gallagher |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781591846970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1591846978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of the Suburbs by : Leigh Gallagher
Originally published in hardcover in 2013.
Author |
: Amanda Kolson Hurley |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 134 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948742375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1948742373 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Suburbs by : Amanda Kolson Hurley
America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.