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Metroburbia, USA / Paul L. Knox.
LIBRA HT352.U6 K56 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knox, Paul L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suburbs--United States.
- Suburbs.
- United States.
- Suburban life--United States.
- Suburban life.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Prelude : the serial enchantment of suburbia
- Metroburbia and the anatomy of the new metropolis
- Developers' utopias
- Comfortably numb : degenerate utopias and evangelistic consultants
- The politics of privatism
- Material culture and society in metroburbia
- Vulgaria : moral landscapes at the leading edges of the new metropolis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813543567
- 0813543568
- 9780813543574
- 0813543576
- OCLC:
- 182553038
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