Crabgrass Frontier

The Suburbanization of the United States

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Crabgrass Frontier

The Suburbanization of the United States

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Throughout history, the treatment and arrangement of shelter have revealed more about a particular people than have any other products of the creative arts. This book is about American housing. The physical organization of our neighborhoods, roads, yards, houses, and apartments sets up a living pattern that conditions our behavior. The physical pattern of housing development that Americans have chosen reflects a deliberate choice to emphasize separateness in our most dominant residential housing pattern: that of suburbia.

Suburbia manifests fundamental American characteristics such as conspicuous consumption, a reliance upon the private automobile, upward mobility, the separation of the family into nuclear units, the widening division between work and leisure, and a tendency toward racial and economic exclusiveness.

Several themes that recur in this book and are fundamental to understanding the suburban pattern of living are the importance of land developers, cheap housing lots, inexpensive construction methods, improved transportation technology, abundant energy, government subsidies, and racial stress. Finally, this book indicates that suburbanization has been as much a governmental as a natural process.

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Cover of: Crabgrass Frontier
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
October 30, 2007, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Crabgrass Frontier
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
April 16, 1987, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Crabgrass frontier
Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States
1985, Oxford University Press
Cover of: Crabgrass frontier
Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States
1985, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Crabgrass frontier
Crabgrass frontier: the suburbanization of the United States
1985, Oxford University Press
in English

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"Written in cuneiform on a clay tablet, this letter to the King of Persia in 539 B.C. represents the first extant expression of the suburban ideal."

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OL7386472M
ISBN 10
0195049837
ISBN 13
9780195049831
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69203
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745452

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