Suburban landscapes : culture and politics in a New York metropolitan community / Paul H. Mattingly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattingly, Paul H.

Contributor:

Center for American Places.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape.

Creating the North American landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--New Jersey--Leonia--History.

Suburbs.

City planning--New Jersey--Leonia--History.

City planning.

Landscape changes--New Jersey--Leonia--History.

Landscape changes.

Leonia (N.J.)--History.

Leonia (N.J.).

Leonia (N.J.)--Politics and government.

Leonia (N.J.)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Oral histories, census records, and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER 1 Dutchness and the English Neighborhood 14

CHAPTER 2 The Village as a Voluntary Organization,

1859-I894 32

CHAPTER 3 Village Landscapes 57

CHAPTER 4 The Trolley Produces a Country Town,

1894-1920 79

CHAPTER 5 Country Landscapes, Bohemian City 113

CHAPTER 6 The Middle-Class Zone 138

CHAPTER 7 The Political Culture of Suburban

Professionals 161

CHAPTER 8 The Ideology of the Civic Conference 180

CHAPTER 9 The Modernization of Suburban Realism 200

CHAPTER 1O Recovering Suburban Memory 236.

Notes:

"Published in Cooperation with the Center for American Places."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-320) and index.

ISBN:

0-8018-7647-8

OCLC:

70731852