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"A compelling narrative.... Jackson traces the consequences of the predominantly North American process [of suburbanization] through three centuries of technological, economic and social innovation."--Philadelphia Inquirer
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The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.
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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. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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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. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Very illuminating study of the growth of suburbia in American history. However, the book is not without flaws. The editing of this book is rather poor (ie. the balloon house construction method is referred to as ballroom construction method) with at least a dozen typos, probably due to the fact that the author suffered the loss of a teen-aged son in a car wreck just as he was finishing the book. He devotes little time to the radical demographic changes in suburbia since World War Two, a situation leading to a barren lack of continuity in suburban towns. The author shies away from most racial causes of the rise of suburbia and urban ethnic and racial transformations. Still, Professor Jackson brings to life what most Americans consider a mundane, dull subject. This is a job well done- I wish he'd write another.
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This is a remarkably well-researched book. However, Professor Jackson makes incredible statements downgrading the importance of race in the making of the American suburbs. While he is undeniably correct that the impetus in American urban policy has been to spread out as far as technology will allow, he does not address to motive behind the no-holds-barred rush for the exits that has typified urban life since WWII. Any observer who credits his senses and not what he reads in a dusty census form in an archive knows that race was the reason for the postwar suburban boom. Professor Jackson or someone should update this book in light of Prof. Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis, which discredits Prof. Jackson's theories on race.
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Crabgrass Frontier is a thorough investigation of America's shift from industrial urban living to the semi-country suburban world sought as the American Dream by many modern Americans. Anyone how practices as a developer or builder should read this book. Unfortunately it would not change the thinking of most people deeply rooted in the current developer/builder practices, but it may sway some in the field and others, like myself, who are planning to enter the development world towards a more ethically responsible practice. In general, Crabgrass Frontier does a superb job identifying the factors, many of these immoral and illegal, that persuaded an entire country to strive for the Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle with the suburban cottage with white picket fence and a new Oldsmobile in the drive. There are many surprising facts related to the government's role in investing in the homogeneously white middle-class suburban developments that are now commonplace throughout our country. It is an excellent book that should be read and shared with others.
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