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Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States

Title
  1. Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.
Published by
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Supplementary content
  1. Publisher description
Author
  1. Jackson, Kenneth T.

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Description
  1. x, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
Subject
  1. Suburbs > United States > History
  2. Suburban life
  3. Housing > United States > History
  4. HISTORY > United States > 20th Century
  5. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
  6. Housing
  7. Social conditions
  8. Suburbs
  9. United States > Social conditions
  10. United States
Genre/Form
  1. History.
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. JLE 85-3624
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards (note)
  1. Bancroft Prize, 1986.
  2. Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.
Author
  1. Jackson, Kenneth T.
Title
  1. Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.
Imprint
  1. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
  1. Bancroft Prize, 1986.
  2. Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.
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  1. Table of contents
  2. Publisher description
LCCN
  1. 85004844
ISBN
  1. 0195036107 (hardcover)
  2. 9780195036107 (hardcover)
Research call number
  1. JLE 85-3624
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