An edition of Redefining suburban studies (2009)

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searching for new paradigms

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searching for new paradigms

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240

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Redefining suburban studies: searching for new paradigms
2009, The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
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Table of Contents

The state of the suburb at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Suburbia and the American dream house -- John Archer
The new urbanism :
a limited revolution --
The built environment of the suburban community.
Breaking the box :
building the suburbs as a fabric -- Renee Y. Chow
Magazines and modernity :
the "home" magazines and the making of the ranch house, 1945-1950 -- Stephen James
The General Motors Technical Center :
material innovation and corporate image in the suburban landscape -- Nancy A. Miller
The rise of the therapeutic suburb :
child care in Westchester County, New York, 1880-1920 --
Issues in the suburban community.
The new suburban flight :
a tale of three airports :
Stewart, Westchester and Islip -- Joshua Schank and Elliott Sclar
The making of an auto-dependent edge city :
the case of Fairfax County, Virginia -- Zachary M. Schrag
The early movement against suburban sprawl :
the metropolitan parks system in Boston and Detroit -- Thomas A. McMullin
Moving walls :
restrictive covenants and residential mobility in Los Angeles -- Leslie Wilson
(Re)constructing working-class motherhood in the suburban public housing project of Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1954 -- Jennifer Kerns
Legal texts as cultural narratives of postwar suburbia :
gender, power, and consumer protection -- Andrea McArdle
Representations of suburban life.
Suburbia :
a sense of place on the silver screen -- Philip C. Dolce
A suburban filmography -- Philip C. Dolce
Tales of the suburbs -- Catherine Jurca
Suburbia onstage -- Kaye DeMetz
Photographing suburbia :
from sociology to art -- Daniel Rubey
The Joseph G. Astman Lecture.
Rethinking the Crabgrass Frontier -- Kenneth T. Jackson.

Edition Notes

"These essays began as papers delivered at the first Suburban Studies conference at Hofstra University entitled 'Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm' in March 2001"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 167-169).

Published in
Hempstead, NY

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.760973
Library of Congress
HT352.U6 R44 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 240 pages
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL39816415M
Internet Archive
redefiningsuburb0000unse
ISBN 10
061531936X
ISBN 13
9780615319360
OCLC/WorldCat
457604920

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