Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.

Main entry:

Jackson, Kenneth T.

Title & Author:

Crabgrass frontier : the suburbanization of the United States / Kenneth T. Jackson.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Description:

x, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
WJC Memorial to William Orthel.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP22.50 0.
Bancroft Prize, 1986.
Society of American Historians Francis Parkman Prize, 1986.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195036107
9780195036107
9780195049831
0195049837

Subject:

Schweiz Eidgenössischer Vorort
Suburbs United States History.
Suburban life.
Housing United States History.
Suburbs.
Housing.
Vie de la banlieue.
Banlieues.
Logement.
housing (concept)
HISTORY United States 20th Century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture.
Social conditions
Geschichte
Soziale Situation
Vorstadt
Suburbanisatie.
Huisvesting.
Suburban life United States.
Logement États-Unis Histoire.
Banlieues États-Unis Histoire.
Vie en banlieue.
United States Social conditions.
États-Unis Conditions sociales.
United States
USA
United States Suburbs, to 1984

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 132219
Call No.: ID:86-B7673
Status: Available

Location: Library main 132220
Call No.: ID HT384.U5.J33 1985 PLM; ID:86-B7673
Status: Available

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