| Description |
x, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
May 1994 $30.00 [14.95] 054701121 |
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May 1994 $30.00 [14.95] 054701121 |
| Subject |
Suburbs -- United States -- History.
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Suburban life.
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Housing -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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| Indexed Term |
United States Suburbs, to 1984 |
| ISBN |
0195036107: $21.95 |
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