Titre et auteur:

The suburb reader / Becky M. Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, editors ; foreword by Kenneth T. Jackson.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, ©2006.

Description:

xxii, 529 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The emergence of suburbia, 1750-1940 -- The transnational origins of the elite suburb -- Family and gender in the making of suburbia -- Technology and decentralization -- Economic and class diversity on the early suburban fringe -- The politics of early suburbia -- Imagining suburbia: visions and plans from the turn of the century -- The other suburbanities: class, racial, and ethnic diversity in early suburbia -- The tools of exclusion: from local initiatives to federal policy -- pt. II. Postwar suburbia, 1940-1970 -- Postwar America: suburban apotheosis -- Critiques of postwar suburbia -- Postwar suburbs and the construction of race -- The city-suburb divide -- pt. III. Recent suburbia, 1970 to the present -- The political culture of suburbia -- Recent suburban transformations, 1970-2000 -- Our town: inclusion and exclusion in recent suburbia -- The future of suburbia.

Résumé:

According to the 2000 Census, fifty percent of Americans live in suburbs, signifying a dramatic reversal of patterns since the 1920s. This work collects the best writings on such suburbs and includes scholarly essays, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles.

Ressources:
Table of contents
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Table of contents

ISBN:

9780415945936 (hardback)
0415945933 (hardback)
9780415945943 (pbk.)
0415945941 (pbk.)
9780415945946

Sujet:

Suburbs United States History.
Housing United States History.
Suburban life United States History.
Banlieues États-Unis Histoire.
Logement États-Unis Histoire.
Vie de la banlieue États-Unis Histoire.
Suburban life
Housing
Suburbs
Suburbaner Raum
Vorort
Suburbanisatie.
Stedelijke gebieden.
United States
USA
Verenigde Staten.

Classification/genre:

Quelle.
History

Vedettes secondaires:

Nicolaides, Becky M.
Wiese, Andrew.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 255646
Cote: BIB 185874
Statut: Disponible