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Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States
- Title
- Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.
- Author
- Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- x, 396 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards (note)
- Bancroft Prize, 1986.
- Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JLE 85-3624
- ISBN
- 0195036107
- 9780195036107
- LCCN
- 85004844
- OCLC
- 11785435
- Author
- Jackson, Kenneth T.
- Title
- Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Awards
- Bancroft Prize, 1986.Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.
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- Research Call Number
- JLE 85-3624