Bourgeois utopias : the rise and fall of suburbia / Robert Fishman.

Main entry:

Fishman, Robert, 1946- author.

Title & Author:

Bourgeois utopias : the rise and fall of suburbia / Robert Fishman.

Publication:

New York : Basic Books, [1987]
©1987

Description:

xii, 241 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.
London : birthplace of suburbia -- Building the bourgeois utopia -- The suburb and the industrial city : Manchester -- Urbanity versus suburbanity : France and the United States -- The classic suburb : the railroad suburbs of Philadelphia -- Los Angeles : suburban metropolis -- Beyond suburbia : the rise of the technoburb.

Summary:

This text traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780465007486
0465007481
0465007473
9780465007479

Subject:

Suburbs.
Suburban life.
Suburban homes.
Banlieues.
Vie de la banlieue.
Maisons de banlieue.
suburban houses.
suburbs.
satellite cities.
Vorstadt
Voorsteden.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Großbritannien
USA

Form/genre:

Utopian fiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 26385
Call No.: ID:88-B12420
Status: Available

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