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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
by Jackson, Kenneth T
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0195036107
- ISBN 13
- 9780195036107
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. Reprint. Fourth printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Speck of dirt on rep.. x, [2], 396 p. Illustrations. Notes. Index In America, in contrast to almost anywhere else in the world, the good life means traveling a long distance to get to work. How and why this came to be our cultural norm is the subject of this long-awaited book. Because more than two-thirds of all dwellings are single family homes surrounded by an ornamental yard, suburbia is the most distinctive physical characteristic of modern American society. Crabgrass Frontier is the first book to trace the growth of suburbs in America from their origins in the 1820's--in Brooklyn Heights opposite Manhattan--until the present day. Combining social history with economic and architectural history, the book discusses suburban communities in every section of the country as well as making comparisons with Europe and Japan. Jackson considers such intriguing questions as why transportation technology changed the shape of American cities more than European ones, why the family room and the television set replaced the stoop and the street as the focus of social interaction, how the evolution of the garage reflected increasing affection for the automobile, how federal housing programs undermined inner city neighborhoods, and how government policies insured the collapse of the nation's once superb mass transit system. The book shows not only that Americans have long preferred a detached dwelling to a row house, rural life to city life, and owning to renting, but also that suburbanization has been as much a governmental as a natural process. About the Author: Kenneth T. Jackson is a Professor of History at Columbia University and the author of The Ku Klux Klan in the City.
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- Title
- Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
- Author
- Jackson, Kenneth T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Speck of dirt on rep.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint. Fourth printing
- ISBN 10
- 0195036107
- ISBN 13
- 9780195036107
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Suburban, Urban Development, Mass Tranport, Transit Systems, Andrew Downing, Deconcentration, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing, David Goldfield, Homeownership, Lewis Mumford, Racism, Racial Discrimination, Levittown, Gwendolyn Wright, Olivier Zunz, Sam Wa
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