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Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States
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.
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1985.
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Table of 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.