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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Emergence of Suburbia, 1750-1940 | |
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| The Transnational Origins of the Elite Suburb | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson yyExpresses a Romantic Vision of Nature, 1836 | |
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| A Suburban Perspective on New York City, 1854 | |
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| British Horticulturalist J. C. Loudon Lays the Foundation for a Suburban Ideal, 1838 | |
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| American Horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing Details the Virtues and Design of Country Living, 1850 | |
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| A. J. Davis Presents A Promotional Plan for Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, 1857 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Llewellyn Park, New Jersey, 1978 | |
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| An Early "Advertisement" for Riverside, Illinois, 1869 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985) | |
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| Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) | |
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| "Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850 and the Spaces of Modernity" (1997) | |
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| Family and Gender in the Making of Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Catharine Beecher Outlines the Proper Role for Women, 1865 | |
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| Catharine Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe depict "A Christian House," 1869 | |
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| Design and Floor Plan of a Suburban Cottage Home, 1887 | |
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| A Doctor Explains the Virtues of Suburbia for Children, 1910 | |
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| An Experienced Suburbanite Counsels Young Women about the Problems of Suburbia, 1909 | |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe Exhorts Men to Be "Handy," 1869 | |
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| A Suburban Couple Finds Delight in the Challenge of a Leaky Roof, 1925 | |
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| Another Take on the Joys of Home Improvement, 1910 | |
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| "The American Home, Safeguard of American Liberties," 1893 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1988) | |
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| "Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity, 1870-1915" (1988) | |
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| Technology and Decentralization | |
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| Documents | |
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| A Steam Ferry in New York Harbor, 1840 | |
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| Harper's Magazine Recounts "The Doleful History of the Omnibus Horse," 1860 | |
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| Horse-Drawn Streetcar, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1887 | |
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| Oakland Daily Evening Tribune Celebrates the Work of "Our Street Railroads," 1876 | |
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| Electric Trolley North of Denver, Circa 1910s | |
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| Automobile and Man in Deep Snow as Trolley Car Passes, Chicago, 1929 | |
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| Architectural Pattern Book Introduces the Latest Domestic Technologies, 1887 | |
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| Suburban Men and Furnace, 1896 | |
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| Advertisement for Eden Washing Machine, 1923 | |
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| Frederick Coburn Foresees a "Five-Hundred-Mile City," 1906 | |
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| Automotive Writer Herbert Towle Explains the Success of the Automobile, 1913 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The First Suburbs: Residential Communities on the Boston Periphery, 1815-1860 (1985) | |
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| Moralism and the Model Home: Domestic Architecture and Cultural Conflict in Chicago, 1873-1913 (1980) | |
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| Economic and Class Diversity on the Early Suburban Fringe | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ernest Burgess Outlines the Chicago School's "Concentric Zone Theory," 1929 | |
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| William Dean Howells Describes a Walk about His Suburban Neighborhood, 1872 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Social Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Suburbia | |
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| Reformer Graham Taylor Documents Early Industrial Suburbs, 1915 | |
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| Harlan Paul Douglass Surveys Multiple Suburban Types, 1925 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Varied Suburban Landscapes | |
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| Business Week Reports on the Proliferation of Suburban Department Stores, 1930 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Early Suburban Shopping Centers | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Capitalist Development and the History of American Cities" (1978) | |
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| "The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950: A New Synthesis," (2001) | |
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| The Politics of Early Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Social Scientist Adna Weber Documents the Trend of Suburban Annexations, 1898 | |
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| A Detroit Suburb Resists Annexation, 1922 | |
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| Political Scientist Thomas Reed Calls for Consolidated Metropolitan Government, 1933 | |
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| Political Consensus: Election Reports from Two Los Angeles Suburbs, 1910 | |
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| Political Acrimony: The Case of South Gate, a Suburb of Los Angeles, 1925 | |
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| The Municipalities of Los Angeles County, 1940 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Building Chicago: Suburban Developers and the Creation of a Divided Metropolis (1988) | |
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| Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities (1997) | |
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| Imagining Suburbia: Visions and Plans from the Turn of the Century | |
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| Documents | |
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| Ebenezer Howard's Garden Cities of To-Morrow, 1902 | |
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| Housing Reformer Carol Aronovici Calls for Suburban Planning, 1914 | |
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| A Planned Industrial Suburb: Firestone Park, Ohio, 1919 | |
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| Suburban Life Profiles Kenilworth, an Exclusive Suburb of Chicago, 1907 | |
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| Sears, Roebuck and Co. Advertises Suburban Home Ownership, 1926 | |
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| Architect Clarence Stein Assesses the Planning for Radburn, New Jersey, 1957 | |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright Imagines "Broadacre City," 1935 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (1995) | |
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| "'God's Very Kingdom on the Earth': The Design Program for the American Suburban Home, 1877-1917" (1991) | |
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| The Other Suburbanites: Class, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity in Early Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Developer S. E. Gross Compares European and American Homes, 1890 | |
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| S. E. Gross Advertises "The Working Man's Reward," 1891 | |
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| Two Progressive Reformers Critique Working-Class Home Ownership, 1912 | |
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| Margaret Byington Profiles the Industrial Suburb of Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1910 | |
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| The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Sells Suburbia to Industrialists, 1927 | |
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| Mary Helen Ponce Recollects Life in a Mexican-American Suburb, 1993 | |
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| Hank Aaron Recalls a Childhood in Toulminville, Alabama, 1991 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Working-Class Suburbia | |
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| Essays | |
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| My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002) | |
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| Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004) | |
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| The Tools of Exclusion: From Local Initiatives to Federal Policy | |
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| Documents | |
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| Suburbanite Frederick Lewis Allen Shares His "Suburban Nightmare," 1925 | |
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| J. C. Nichols Makes the Case for Suburban Planning, 1923 | |
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| Restrictive Deed, East San Diego, California, 1911 | |
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| A Suburbanite Defends Racial Exclusion in Court, 1933 | |
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| Weimer and Hoyt Outline the Principles of Urban Real Estate, 1939 | |
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| White House Panel of Experts Depicts the Ideal Home, 1932 | |
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| Home Owners Loan Corporation Appraises Los Angeles, 1939 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning (1987) | |
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| "Race, Ethnicity and Real Estate Appraisal: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and the Federal Housing Administration" (1980) | |
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| Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1970 | |
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| Postwar America: Suburban Apotheosis | |
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| Documents | |
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| Kelvinator Advertises the Dream of a Suburban Home, 1944 | |
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| Hundreds Line up to Buy a Levittown Home, 1949 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Advertisements for Postwar Suburbs | |
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| Photo Gallery: Postwar Suburbia | |
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| A Levittown Housewife Describes How She Keeps House, 1949 | |
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| A Day in the Life of a Suburban Carpool Mother, 1955 | |
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| D. J. Waldie Recollects Life on the Grid, 1996 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "Building the American Way: Public Subsidy, Private Space" (2004) | |
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| The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001) | |
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| Expanding the American Dream (1993) | |
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| Critiques of Postwar Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Folksinger Malvina Reynolds Critiques Suburbia in Song, 1962 | |
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| William Whyte Describes the "Organization Man" in Suburbia, 1956 | |
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| The Commuters of Park Forest, Illinois, 1953 | |
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| Lewis Mumford Points to the Failures of Modern Suburbia, 1961 | |
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| The Feminine Mystique, 1963 | |
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| The Trapped Suburban Mother, 1961 | |
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| Suburban Women in Great Neck, New York, Explore Feminism, 1973 | |
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| John Cheever's Short Story, "O Youth and Beauty!" 1953 | |
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| Peter Blake Portrays Suburbia as God's Own Junkyard, 1964 | |
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| Mad Magazine Satirizes Suburbia, 1974 | |
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| Sociologist Bennett Berger Challenges the "Myth of Suburbia," 1961 | |
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| Sociologist Herbert Gans Explores Life in Levittown, 1967 | |
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| Postwar Suburbs and the Construction of Race | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Chicago Defender Celebrates the Supreme Court's Ruling on Restrictive Covenants, 1948 | |
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| U.S. News & World Report Reviews Strategies to Preserve Segregation, 1948 | |
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| The New York Times Reports on Racial Exclusion at Levittown, 1949 | |
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| Charles Abrams Attacks Housing Discrimination, 1955 | |
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| Jackie Robinson Testifies to Discriminatory "Beanballs" in Housing, 1959 | |
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| Civil Rights Advocate Ralph Guzman Reveals Discrimination's "New Look," 1956 | |
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| Atlanta Housing Council Proposes "Negro Expansion Areas," 1947 | |
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| Whites React to Fears of Black Encroachment in West Atlanta, 1950s | |
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| Redbook Examines Integration Efforts in Teaneck, New Jersey, 1957 | |
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| Norman Rockwell Depicts Suburban Integration, 1967 | |
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| Essays | |
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| "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: Racialized Social Democracy and the 'White' Problem in American Studies" (1995) | |
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| Red Lines, Black Spaces: The Politics of Race and Space in a Black Middle-Class Suburb (2001) | |
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| The City-Suburb Divide | |
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| Documents | |
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| William Laas Promotes Consolidation as the Cure for "Suburbitis," 1950 | |
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| The Wall Street Journal Highlights Industry, Thrift and Racial Homogeneity in a "Model Municipality," 1966 | |
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| U.S. Civil Rights Commission Describes Suburbia as a "White Noose," 1961 | |
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| The Kerner Commission Predicts "Two Societies," 1968 | |
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| Jonathan Kozol Describes Inequality in Urban and Suburban Schools, 1991 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Outer City: The Geographical Consequences of the Urbanization of the Suburbs (1976) | |
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| American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2003) | |
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| Recent Suburbia, 1970 to the Present | |
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| The Political Culture of Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Californians Air Their Opinions on Prop. 13, 1978 | |
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| UCLA Business Professor Argues that Prop. 13 Would Reduce Bloated Government, 1978 | |
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| Commonweal Criticizes Prop. 13, 1978 | |
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| The Los Angeles Times Reflects on Prop. 13's Impact Two Decades Later, 1998 | |
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| Political Scientist Robert Wood Characterizes Suburban Politics, 1958 | |
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| Political Analyst Kevin Phillips Documents Suburbia's Role in the Republican Ascendancy, 1969 | |
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| The Atlantic Monthly Heralds The Suburban Century, 1992 | |
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| George W. Bush Wins with Critical Support from Suburban Fringe, 2004 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (2003) | |
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| Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001) | |
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| "Suburban Strategies: The Volatile Center in Postwar American Politics" (2003) | |
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| Recent Suburban Transformations, 1970-2000 | |
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| Documents | |
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| The New York Times Magazine Spotlights Black Suburbanization, 1992 | |
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| Aaron McGruder Shakes up Suburbia on the Comic Page, 1999 | |
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| A Reporter Documents Ethnic Diversity in Atlanta's Suburbs, 1999 | |
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| Donna Gaines Surveys Suburbia's "Teenage Wasteland," 1991 | |
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| Christopher Caldwell Links Teen Alienation to the Environment of New Suburbia, 1999 | |
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| Suburbs Outgrow Long-Time Residents, 2000 | |
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| Myron Orfield Outlines the New Diversity in American Suburbia, 2003 | |
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| Photo Gallery: "Have" and "Have Not" Suburbia, 1989 and 1995 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The First Suburban Chinatown: The Remaking of Monterey Park, California (1994) | |
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| American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins (1995) | |
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| Our Town: Inclusion and Exclusion in Recent Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Legal Activists Paul Davidoff and Neil Gold Attack "Exclusionary Zoning," 1970 | |
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| The New Jersey Supreme Court Rejects Exclusionary Zoning in its Developing Suburbs, 1975 | |
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| South Jersey Residents Stand in Line for Affordable Suburban Housing, 2003 | |
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| Residents of Mount Laurel, New Jersey Enjoy Fair Share Housing, 2002 | |
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| The Philadelphia Inquirer Examines CC&Rs, 1991 | |
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| A Black Suburb Debates Privacy, 1996 | |
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| Commentator David Boaz Explains the Virtues of Gated Communities, 1996 | |
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| Planner Edward Blakely Criticizes "Fortress America," 1998 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Contemporary Gated Communities | |
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| Essays | |
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| Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government (1994) | |
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| Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America (2003) | |
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| The Future of Suburbia | |
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| Documents | |
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| Journalist Joel Garreau Names and Defines the Edge City, 1991 | |
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| James Howard Kunstler Condemns Suburban Sprawl, 1994 | |
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| Historian Dolores Hayden Considers, "What Is Sprawl?" 2004 | |
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| Inner-Suburb Mayor Proposes "Sprawl Warning," 2003 | |
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| Photo Gallery: Recent Suburban Development, Denver, Colorado | |
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| Urban Experts Discuss the Future of Sprawl, 1996 | |
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| Myron Orfield Proposes a Regional Approach to Metropolitan Problems, 2003 | |
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| Charter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, 1996 | |
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| Photo Gallery: New Urbanist Suburbia: Kentlands, Maryland | |
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| Urban Scholar Robert Bruegmann Critiques the "Antisprawl" Movement, 2000 | |
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| Robert Putnam Connects Suburbanization to the Demise of Community, 2000 | |
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| Journalist Charles McGrath Offers a Coda for the Suburban Dream, 2000 | |
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| Copyright Information | |
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| Index | |