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Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History. Urban studiesPublication details: New York Oxford University Press c1985Description: x, 396 p. il. 24 cmISBN:
  • 0195049837
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HT 384 U5 J3
Contents:
Suburbs as slums -- The transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city -- Home, sweet home: the house and the yard -- Romantic suburbs -- The main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads -- The time of the trolley -- Affordable homes for the common man -- Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation -- The new age of automobility -- Suburban development between the wars -- Federal subsidy and the suburban dream : how Washington changed the american housing market -- The cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States -- The baby boom and the age of the subdivision -- The drive-in culture of contemporary America -- The loss of community in metropolitan America -- Retrospect and prospect.
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Suburbs as slums -- The transportation revolution and the erosion of the walking city -- Home, sweet home: the house and the yard -- Romantic suburbs -- The main line: elite suburbs and commuter railroads -- The time of the trolley -- Affordable homes for the common man -- Suburbs into neighborhoods: the rise and fall of municipal annexation -- The new age of automobility -- Suburban development between the wars -- Federal subsidy and the suburban dream : how Washington changed the american housing market -- The cost of good intentions: the ghettoization of public housing in the United States -- The baby boom and the age of the subdivision -- The drive-in culture of contemporary America -- The loss of community in metropolitan America -- Retrospect and prospect.

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