Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States Kenneth T. Jackson

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Kenneth T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--United States--History.

Suburbs.

Suburban life.

Housing--United States--History.

Housing.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

x, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Summary:

Chronicles the development of American suburbs, compares American residential patterns with those of Europe and Japan, and discusses how society's views of the metropolis have changed throughout history.

Contents:

Suburbs as slums

Transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city

Home, sweet home: the house and the yard

Romantic suburbs

Main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads

Time of the trolley

Affordable homes for the common man

Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation

New age of automobility

Suburban development between the wars

Federal subsidy and the suburban dream: how Washington changed the American housing market

Cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States

Baby boom and the age of the subdivision

Drive-in culture of contemporary America

Loss of community in metropolitan America

Retrospect and prospect.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bancroft Prize, 1986.

Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.

ISBN:

0195036107

9780195036107

9780195049831

0195049837

OCLC:

11785435

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