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Redefining suburban studies : searching for new paradigms / edited by Daniel Rubey ; introduction by Barbara M. Kelly.

Title
  1. Redefining suburban studies : searching for new paradigms / edited by Daniel Rubey ; introduction by Barbara M. Kelly.
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  1. Hempstead, NY : The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, 2009.

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Additional authors
  1. Rubey, Daniel R., 1941-
  2. Kelly, Barbara M.
  3. Hofstra University. National Center for Suburban Studies.
  4. Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm (1st : 2001 : Hofstra University)
Description
  1. xiv, 240 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. 1900-1999
  2. Suburbs > United States > History > 20th century
  3. Suburban life > United States > History > 20th century
  4. Metropolitan areas > United States > History > 20th century
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. 1. The state of the suburb at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Suburbia and the American dream house / John Archer -- The new urbanism: a limited revolution -- 2. The built environment of the suburban community. Breaking the box: building the suburbs as a fabric / Renee Y. Chow -- Magazines and modernity: the "home" magazines and the making of the ranch house, 1945-1950 / Stephen James - - The General Motors Technical Center: material innovation and corporate image in the suburban landscape / Nancy A. Miller - - The rise of the therapeutic suburb: child care in Westchester County, New York, 1880-1920 -- 3. Issues in the suburban community. The new suburban flight: a tale of three airports: Stewart, Westchester and Islip / Joshua Schank and Elliott Sclar - - The making of an auto-dependent edge city: the case of Fairfax County, Virginia / Zachary M. Schrag - - The early movement against suburban sprawl: the metropolitan parks system in Boston and Detroit / Thomas A. McMullin - - Moving walls: restrictive covenants and residential mobility in Los Angeles / Leslie Wilson - - (Re) constructing working-class motherhood in the suburban public housing project of Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1954 / Jennifer Kerns - - Legal texts as cultural narratives of postwar suburbia: gender,power, and consumer protection / Andrea McArdle -- 4. Representations of suburban life. Suburbia: a sense of place on the silver screen / Philip C. Dolce - - A suburban filmography / Philip C. Dolce - - Tales of the suburbs / Catherine Jurca - - Suburbia onstage / Kaye DeMetz - - Photographing suburbia: from sociology to art / Daniel Rubey -- 5. The Joseph G. Astman Lecture. Rethinking the Crabgrass Frontier / Kenneth T. Jackson.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Note
  1. Papers the began as presentations at a conference held at Hofstra in 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
  2. Includes filmography (p. [167]-169).
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain