Main entry:

Mattingly, Paul H.

Title & Author:

Suburban landscapes : culture and politics in a New York metropolitan community / Paul H. Mattingly.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.

Description:

xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
"Published in Cooperation with the Center for American Places."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-320) and index.
Ch. 1. Dutchness and the English Neighborhood -- Ch. 2. The Village as a Voluntary Organization, 1859-1894 -- Ch. 3. Village Landscapes -- Ch. 4. The Trolley Produces a Country Town, 1894-1920 -- Ch. 5. Country Landscapes, Bohemian City -- Ch. 6. The Middle-Class Zone -- Ch. 7. The Political Culture of Suburban Professionals -- Ch. 8. The Ideology of the Civic Conference -- Ch. 9. The Modernization of Suburban Realism -- Ch. 10. Recovering Suburban Memory.
Also issued online.

Summary:

In this work, Paul Mattingly provides a model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City.

Resources:
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Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801866804 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780801866807 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Suburbs New Jersey Leonia History.
City planning New Jersey Leonia History.
Landscape changes New Jersey Leonia History.
City planning
Landscape changes
Manners and customs
Politics and government
Suburbs
Leonia (N.J.) History.
Leonia (N.J.) Politics and government.
Leonia (N.J.) Social life and customs.
New Jersey Leonia

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Center for American Places.
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218993
Call No.: HT352.U62 N4 2001
Status: Available