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Escaping Suburbia

Author : David J Eveleigh
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750993413
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Escaping Suburbia written by David J Eveleigh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to 'My Old Man's a Dustman', his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the 'swinging' sixties.

Suburbia

Author : David Randall
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992964
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Suburbia written by David Randall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suburbs – long sneered at for being dreary and stultifying – have always been far livelier and more entertaining than they're given credit for. In this witty and sharply observed account of what it was like to grow up in one in the 1950s and '60s, David Randall gives the other side of suburbia: full of absurdities and happiness, scandals and follies, and inhabitants both sage and silly. Here, at last, is the truth about what life was really like behind the often-closed (but not always net) curtains of our semi-detacheds. This is that rare book: a most unmiserable memoir.

The Sprawl

Author : Jason Diamond
Publisher : Coffee House Press
ISBN 13 : 1566895901
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Sprawl written by Jason Diamond and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.

Selected Suburban Soliloquies

Author : B.H. Bentzman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105392929
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Selected Suburban Soliloquies written by B.H. Bentzman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of 100 essays that have appeared over the last dozen years in a column at Snakeskin.

Suburban Escape

Author : Ann M. Wolfe
Publisher : Center Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Suburban Escape written by Ann M. Wolfe and published by Center Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Carlos Almaraz, Robert Arneson, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Robert Bechtle, Jeff Brouws, Laurie Brown, Angela Buenning, Darlene Campbell, Mark Campbell, Gary Carlos, Fandra Chang, Stephane Couturier, Robert Dawson, Joe Deal, Richard Diebenkorn, John Divola, Beth Yarnelle Edwards, Kota Ezawa, William A. Garnett, Jeff Gillette, Joe Goode, Todd Hido, David Hockney, Salomon Huerta, Robert Isaacs, Thomas Lawson, Jean Lowe, Alex MacLean, Richard Meisinger, Jr., Richard Misrach, Rick Monzon, Barrie Mottishaw, Martin Mull, Deborah Oropallo, Bill Owens, Rondal Partridge, John Register, Ed Ruscha, Peter Saul, Mary Snowden, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Sultan, Rudy Vanderlans, Camilo Jose Vergara, Henry Wessel, Amir Zaki.

The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard

Author : Abraham Akkerman
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487501269
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard written by Abraham Akkerman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ebenezer Howard, an Englishman, and Jane Jacobs, a naturalized Canadian, personify the twentieth century's opposing outlooks on cities. Howard had envisaged small towns, newly built from scratch, fashioned on single family homes with small gardens. Jacobs embraced existing inner-city neighbourhoods emphasizing the verve of the living street. From Howard's idea, the American Dream of garden suburbs had emerged, yet his conceptualization of a modern city received criticism for being uniform and alienated from the rest of the city. Similarly, at the turn of the new century, Jacobs' inner-city neighbourhoods came to be recognized as the result of commodification, vacillating between poverty and newly discovered hubs of urban authenticity. Presenting Howard and Jacobs within a psychocultural context, The Urban Archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard addresses our urban crisis in the recognition that "city form" is a gendered, allegorical medium expressing femininity and masculinity within two founding features of the built environment: void and volume. Both founding contrasts bring tensions, but also the opportunities of fusion between pairs of urban polarities: human scale against superscale, gait against speed, and spontaneity against surveillance. Jacobs and Howard, in their respective attitudes, have come to embrace the two ancient archetypes, the Garden and the Citadel, leaving it to future generations to blend their two contrarian stances.

Suburbia in the 21st Century

Author : Paul J. Maginn
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317288181
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Suburbia in the 21st Century written by Paul J. Maginn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas and the 21st century has been declared as the "urban age". However, closer inspection of where people live in cities, especially within so-called advanced liberal democracies such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, reveals that most people live in different types of suburban environments. Drawing together scholars from across the globe, this book provides a series of national, regional, and local case studies from Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States to exemplify the diverse and dynamic nature and importance of suburbia in 21st century urban studies, city-building, and urbanism. This book explores the evolving social, physical, and economic character of the suburbs and how structural processes, market dynamics, and government policies have shaped and transformed suburbia around the world. It highlights the continuing importance of the suburbs and the suburban dream, which lives on albeit under increasing challenges, such as the global financial crisis, structural racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, which have given rise to various suburban nightmares.

Escape from Suburbia

Author : Caza
Publisher : Nbm Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780317539035
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Escape from Suburbia written by Caza and published by Nbm Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Escape to Suburbia (Suburbia #4 Prequel)

Author : Melody Calder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Escape to Suburbia (Suburbia #4 Prequel) written by Melody Calder and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow three friends in this story of friendship, tragedy, and love as they fight against the lives that have been forced upon them. Victoria Anderson has spent her childhood preparing to be a pious, perfect wife and mother. As the eldest daughter of the Bishop, she feels the pressure to live up to her family's status in the community. A secret threatens not only her family's status, but also her future. She struggles with the choice she must make; family or love? Rachel Grant is Victoria's best friend. Her own arranged marriage to a terribly cruel man is also fast approaching. She's desperate to escape a life that will break her yet she can't find the courage to leave her best friend behind. A best friend who is also the love of her life. Will she choose love over her religion? Elena Mason has spent her life trying to appease her father. When she comes of age, she's forced to become the fifth wife of a man twice her age. Witnessing the abuse of the children in her soon-to-be family strengthens her resolve to protect the children regardless of the cost to herself. A tragic accident threatens to destroy everything she has overcome. Can her friend's save her in time? *** Trigger warnings: Contains physical and sexual abuse and references to child brides. Please read the forward for information on religious references. This book contains sexual content and is intended for mature audiences. It is a prequel to Secrets in Suburbia containing F/F scenes. Though it is recommended for the best reading experience to read Suburbia books 1-3, which are reverse harem, this may be read as a standalone.

Native Speaker

Author : Chang-rae Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1573225312
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Native Speaker written by Chang-rae Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF THE ATLANTIC’S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS The debut novel from critically acclaimed and New York Times–bestselling author of On Such a Full Sea and My Year Abroad. In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean heritage seems to drift further and further away. Park's harsh Korean upbringing has taught him to hide his emotions, to remember everything he learns, and most of all to feel an overwhelming sense of alienation. In other words, it has shaped him as a natural spy. But the very attributes that help him to excel in his profession put a strain on his marriage to his American wife and stand in the way of his coming to terms with his young son's death. When he is assigned to spy on a rising Korean-American politician, his very identity is tested, and he must figure out who he is amid not only the conflicts within himself but also within the ethnic and political tensions of the New York City streets. Native Speaker is a story of cultural alienation. It is about fathers and sons, about the desire to connect with the world rather than stand apart from it, about loyalty and betrayal, about the alien in all of us and who we finally are.

SuburbiaNation

Author : R. Beuka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349732109
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book SuburbiaNation written by R. Beuka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.

Trouble in Paradise

Author : Mark Baldassare
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231060158
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Trouble in Paradise written by Mark Baldassare and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a fresh look at American suburbs, explains why they are changing, and discusses the housing crisis, growth, local government, and demand for services.

Bogs, Baths and Basins

Author : David J Eveleigh
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752495801
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Bogs, Baths and Basins written by David J Eveleigh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2006-11-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the early primitive sanitation devices such as cesspits and urban dung heaps. From Roman times up to modern-day luxury, this book leads us chronologically through the story of sanitation. It also describes the advances that came with the onslaught of technology from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. With first hand accounts and evidence from diaries and contemporary records, David Eveleigh traces the history of inventions that have affected everyone throughout history, told with a lively combination of human interest and drama.

City Visions

Author : David Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317881575
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book City Visions written by David Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the latest work on the city, presenting contemporary theories, methods and perspectives in an accessible format for upper-level undergraduates and postgraduates in geography, cultural studies and sociology.

Ballads of Suburbia

Author : Stephanie Kuehnert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126852
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Ballads of Suburbia written by Stephanie Kuehnert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning tale of suburbia's darker underbelly by the critically acclaimed author of I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, Stephanie Keuhnert. Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not the clichéd ones where a diva hits her dramatic high note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the true ballads: the punk rocker or the country crooner reminding their listeners of the numerous ways to screw things up. In high school, Kara helped maintain the "Stories of Suburbia" notebook, which contained newspaper articles about bizarre, tragic events from suburbs all over America, and personal vignettes that Kara dubbed "ballads" written by her friends in Oak Park, just outside of Chicago. But Kara never wrote her own ballad. Before she could figure out what her song was about, she left town suddenly at the end of her junior year. Now, four years later, Kara returns to her hometown to face the music, needing to revisit the disastrous events that led to her leaving, in order to move on with her life. Intensely powerful and utterly engaging, Ballads of Suburbia explores the heartbreaking moments when life changes unexpectedly, and reveals the consequences of being forced to grow up too soon.

Expanding Suburbia

Author : Roger Webster
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800735146
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Expanding Suburbia written by Roger Webster and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.

Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture

Author : Eoghan Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319964275
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Irish Suburbia in Literature and Culture written by Eoghan Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical essays explores the literary and visual cultures of modern Irish suburbia, and the historical, social and aesthetic contexts in which these cultures have emerged. The lived experience and the artistic representation of Irish suburbia have received relatively little scholarly consideration and this multidisciplinary volume redresses this critical deficit. It significantly advances the nascent socio-historical field of Irish suburban studies, while simultaneously disclosing and establishing a history of suburban Irish literary and visual culture. The essays also challenge conventional conceptions of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing and art and reveal that, though Irish suburban experience is often conceived of pejoratively by writers and artists, there are also many who register and valorise the imaginative possibilities of Irish suburbia and the meanings of its social and cultural life.