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Author |
: Andres Duany |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0865476063 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780865476066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Nation by : Andres Duany
Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in "Suburban Nation" they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. 115 illustrations.
Author |
: Kevin M. Kruse |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2006-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226456638 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226456633 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Suburban History by : Kevin M. Kruse
Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue -- Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund -- Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara -- How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides -- "The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- "Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self -- Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind -- Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa -- The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug.
Author |
: R. Beuka |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2016-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349732104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349732109 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis SuburbiaNation by : R. Beuka
The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.
Author |
: S. Mitra Kalita |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0813536650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780813536651 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Sahibs by : S. Mitra Kalita
Focuses on three waves of immigration in the post-civil rights era through the stories of three families: the Kotharis, Patels and Sarmas. This book attempts to answer the question of how and why they arrived, and it offers a window into what America has become; a nation of suburbs as well as a nation of immigrants.
Author |
: Kenneth T. Jackson |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1987-04-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199840342 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199840342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crabgrass Frontier by : Kenneth T. Jackson
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.
Author |
: Matthew J. Lindstrom |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742525813 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742525818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Sprawl by : Matthew J. Lindstrom
This book provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of suburban sprawl development and smart growth alternatives within the contexts of culture, ecology, and politics. It offers a mix of theoretical inquiry, historical analysis, policy critique, and case studies. In addition, each chapter is coupled with featured interviews with leading activists and policymakers working on sprawl issues. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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 |
: Lisa McGirr |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 427 |
Release |
: 2015-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400866205 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400866200 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Suburban Warriors by : Lisa McGirr
In the early 1960s, American conservatives seemed to have fallen on hard times. McCarthyism was on the run, and movements on the political left were grabbing headlines. The media lampooned John Birchers's accusations that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist puppet. Mainstream America snickered at warnings by California Congressman James B. Utt that "barefooted Africans" were training in Georgia to help the United Nations take over the country. Yet, in Utt's home district of Orange County, thousands of middle-class suburbanites proceeded to organize a powerful conservative movement that would land Ronald Reagan in the White House and redefine the spectrum of acceptable politics into the next century. Suburban Warriors introduces us to these people: women hosting coffee klatches for Barry Goldwater in their tract houses; members of anticommunist reading groups organizing against sex education; pro-life Democrats gradually drawn into conservative circles; and new arrivals finding work in defense companies and a sense of community in Orange County's mushrooming evangelical churches. We learn what motivated them and how they interpreted their political activity. Lisa McGirr shows that their movement was not one of marginal people suffering from status anxiety, but rather one formed by successful entrepreneurial types with modern lifestyles and bright futures. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored in a fusion of Christian fundamentalism, xenophobic nationalism, and western libertarianism. While introducing these rank-and-file activists, McGirr chronicles Orange County's rise from "nut country" to political vanguard. Through this history, she traces the evolution of the New Right from a virulent anticommunist, anti-establishment fringe to a broad national movement nourished by evangelical Protestantism. Her original contribution to the social history of politics broadens—and often upsets—our understanding of the deep and tenacious roots of popular conservatism in America.
Author |
: Benjamin Ross |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199360147 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199360146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dead End by : Benjamin Ross
A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading
Author |
: Jane Holtz Kay |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2012-06-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307819970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307819973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Asphalt Nation by : Jane Holtz Kay
Asphalt Nation is a major work of urban studies that examines how the automobile has ravaged America’s cities and landscape, and how we can fight back. The automobile was once seen as a boon to American life, eradicating the pollution caused by horses and granting citizens new levels of personal freedom and mobility. But it was not long before the servant became the master—public spaces were designed to accommodate the automobile at the expense of the pedestrian, mass transportation was neglected, and the poor, unable to afford cars, saw their access to jobs and amenities worsen. Now even drivers themselves suffer, as cars choke the highways and pollution and congestion have replaced the fresh air of the open road. Today our world revolves around the car—as a nation, we spend eight billion hours a year stuck in traffic. In Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay effectively calls for a revolution to reverse our automobile-dependency. Citing successful efforts in places from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, Kay shows us that radical change is not impossible by any means. She demonstrates that there are economic, political, architectural, and personal solutions that can steer us out of the mess. Asphalt Nation is essential reading for everyone interested in the history of our relationship with the car, and in the prospect of returning to a world of human mobility.