Kenneth T. Jackson
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.
1.. Suburbs as Slums
2.. The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City
3.. Home Sweet Home: The House and the Yard
4.. Romantic Suburbs
5.. The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads
6.. The Time of the Trolley
7.. Affordable Homes for the
Common Man
8.. Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation
9.. The New Age of Automobility
10.. Suburban Development Between the Wars
11.. Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market
12.. The Cost of Good
Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States
13.. The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision
14.. The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America
15.. The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America
16.. Retrospect and Prospect
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Kenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930; Cities in American History; and a number of other books.
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