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Crabgrass Frontier The Suburbanization of the United States

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Full Title

Crabgrass Frontier The Suburbanization of the United States

Author(s)

Kenneth T. Jackson

Edition
ISBN

9780199840342, 9780195049831, 9780199763146, 9780195036107

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how “the good life” in America came to be equated with the a home of one’s own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.