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Author : Robert Andrew Margo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Explaining the Post-war Suburbanization of Population in the United States written by Robert Andrew Margo and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Beauregard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290913X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book When America Became Suburban written by Robert A. Beauregard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In When America Became Suburban, Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. When America Became Suburban brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity. Robert A. Beauregard is a professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. He is the author of Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of U.S. Cities and editor of Economic Restructuring and Political Response and Atop the Urban Hierarchy.
Author : Andrew Wiese
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226896269
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Places of Their Own written by Andrew Wiese and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Melbenan Drive just west of Atlanta, sunlight falls onto a long row of well-kept lawns. Two dozen homes line the street; behind them wooden decks and living-room windows open onto vast woodland properties. Residents returning from their jobs steer SUVs into long driveways and emerge from their automobiles. They walk to the front doors of their houses past sculptured bushes and flowers in bloom. For most people, this cozy image of suburbia does not immediately evoke images of African Americans. But as this pioneering work demonstrates, the suburbs have provided a home to black residents in increasing numbers for the past hundred years—in the last two decades alone, the numbers have nearly doubled to just under twelve million. Places of Their Own begins a hundred years ago, painting an austere portrait of the conditions that early black residents found in isolated, poor suburbs. Andrew Wiese insists, however, that they moved there by choice, withstanding racism and poverty through efforts to shape the landscape to their own needs. Turning then to the 1950s, Wiese illuminates key differences between black suburbanization in the North and South. He considers how African Americans in the South bargained for separate areas where they could develop their own neighborhoods, while many of their northern counterparts transgressed racial boundaries, settling in historically white communities. Ultimately, Wiese explores how the civil rights movement emboldened black families to purchase homes in the suburbs with increased vigor, and how the passage of civil rights legislation helped pave the way for today's black middle class. Tracing the precise contours of black migration to the suburbs over the course of the whole last century and across the entire United States, Places of Their Own will be a foundational book for anyone interested in the African American experience or the role of race and class in the making of America's suburbs. Winner of the 2005 John G. Cawelti Book Award from the American Culture Association. Winner of the 2005 Award for Best Book in North American Urban History from the Urban History Association.
Author : Edward N. Wolff
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845420529
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (25 download)
Download or read book What Has Happened to the Quality of Life in the Advanced Industrialized Nations? written by Edward N. Wolff and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although per capita income in the United States outstripped that in other developed countries during the 1990s, it is questionable if the levels of welfare services that it provides to its citizens has kept pace. This study examines how the standard of living is measured.
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199840342
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Crabgrass Frontier written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1987-04-16 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jamie C.. Saucier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Cul-de-sac Culture written by Jamie C.. Saucier and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The field of suburban history has, thus far, been dominated by studies of the public policies that spawned suburbanization and social histories of specific suburban areas. Such works enhance our understanding of how the United States became suburbanized in the years after World War II, chronicling the public-private partnership between government and corporations that boosted home ownership, and thus suburban growth, as well as the racial exclusion on which suburban home ownership was built. However, these studies do little to enhance our limited understanding of the significance mass suburbanization held for American culture. My study focuses on this neglected aspect of the historical narrative, how social thought about the suburbs constructed the image and idea of suburbia as a modern myth. Through this process, the suburbs became a convenient locus for intellectual and cultural discontent, a useful target through which commentators could criticize American culture without indicting the entire society. Equally significant, the intellectual and cultural preoccupation with suburbia diminished the differences between individual suburbs, combining them all under the rubric of suburbia. I argue that a suburban discourse grew out of the intellectual critique of conformity in the early 1950s as a way to consolidate and contain various social anxieties, including, but not limited to, concerns about consumerism, cultural homogeneity, individual identity, and the extension of corporate influence into domestic life. Suburbia and these associative qualities became inseparable, providing a visual and spatial manifestation of manufactured contentment and inauthentic complacency. As such, suburbia was a recognizable symbol for a host of critical assumptions that were disseminated through fiction, film, and cultural commentary from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. By examining the history of suburbia as an image and idea, this project elucidates shared patterns of cultural expression that have had a profound and enduring influence on our collective understanding of suburbs specifically, and American society in general. The suburban discourse, by revealing the complex and often contradictory meanings attributed to suburbia, provides necessary cultural context to the political and social processes of mass suburbanization in the postwar period"--Pages viii-ix.
Author : Nicholas A. Phelps
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026233075X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Sequel to Suburbia written by Nicholas A. Phelps and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change. In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around major cities were decentralized and automobile oriented, an embodiment of America's postwar mass-production, mass-consumption economy. But alternate models for suburbia, including “transit-oriented development,” “smart growth,” and “New Urbanism,” have inspired critiques of suburbanization and experiments in post-suburban ways of living. In Sequel to Suburbia, Nicholas Phelps considers the possible post-suburban future, offering historical and theoretical context as well as case studies of transforming communities. Phelps first locates these outer suburban rings within wider metropolitan spaces, describes the suburbs as a “spatial fix” for the postwar capitalist economy, and examines the political and governmental obstacles to reworking suburban space. He then presents three glimpses of post-suburban America, looking at Kendall-Dadeland (in Miami-Dade County, Florida), Tysons Corner (in Fairfax County, Virginia), and Schaumburg, Illinois (near Chicago). He shows Kendall-Dadeland to be an isolated New Urbanism success; describes the re-planning of Tysons Corner to include a retrofitted central downtown area; and examines Schaumburg's position as a regional capital for Chicago's northwest suburbs. As these cases show, the reworking of suburban space and the accompanying political process will not be left to a small group of architects, planners, and politicians. Post-suburban politics will have to command the approval of the residents of suburbia.
Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226456633
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The New Suburban History written by Kevin M. Kruse and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-07-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: The new suburban history / Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue -- Marketing the free market : state intervention and the politics of prosperity in metropolitan America / David M.P. Freund -- Less than plessy : the inner city, suburbs, and state-sanctioned residential segregation in the age of Brown / Arnold R. Hirsch -- Uncovering the city in the suburb : Cold War politics, scientific elites, and high-tech spaces / Margaret Pugh O'Mara -- How hell moved from the city to the suburbs : urban scholars and changing perceptions of authentic community / Becky Nicolaides -- "The house I live in" : race, class, and African American suburban dreams in the postwar United States / Andrew Wiese -- "Socioeconomic integration" in the suburbs : from reactionary populism to class fairness in metropolitan Charlotte / Matthew D. Lassiter -- Prelude to the tax revolt : the politics of the "tax dollar" in postwar California / Robert O. Self -- Suburban growth and its discontents : the logic and limits of reform on the postwar Northeast corridor / Peter Siskind -- Reshaping the American dream : immigrants, ethnic minorities, and the politics of the new suburbs / Michael Jones-Correa -- The legal technology of exclusion in metropolitan America / Gerald Frug.
Author : Verena Bartschat
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656576890
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (565 download)
Download or read book The American suburbanization in 1970/80 and its consequences for the mobility behaviour of the US-Population written by Verena Bartschat and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Kassel, language: English, abstract: This paper is on suburbanization and the resulting mobility behavior of the US-population. In the first passage, the term “suburbanization” will be explained as well as the corresponding reasons and consequences. In the following, the mobility behavior which is highly shaped by suburbanization will be illustrated. Thereby, the actions of some American cities to speed up the reurbanization, using projects concerning the local public transport, and to improve the housing situation in the long run will be examined. Furthermore, the fight against the reasons for the suburbanization, with the integration of ethnic minorities leading the way, will be thematized. This process will be explained in chapter four. The topic is still of current interest: cities and communities, but also the whole population are forced to change their thinking due to growing demands on the protection of the environment and species as well as increasing prices for commodities (especially oil in that context). Long trips to work, in many cases caused by the suburbanization, are no longer affordable. They demand a high time budget that cannot be brought into accordance with the new trend to an ecological lifestyle.
Author : James A. Jacobs
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937620
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Detached America written by James A. Jacobs and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-09-09 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the quarter century between 1945 and 1970, Americans crafted a new manner of living that shaped and reshaped how residential builders designed and marketed millions of detached single-family suburban houses. The modest two- and three-bedroom houses built immediately following the war gave way to larger and more sophisticated houses shaped by casual living, which stressed a family's easy sociability and material comfort and were a major element in the cohesion of a greatly expanded middle class. These dwellings became the basic building blocks of explosive suburban growth during the postwar period, luring families to the metropolitan periphery from both crowded urban centers and the rural hinterlands. Detached America is the first book with a national scope to explore the design and marketing of postwar houses. James A. Jacobs shows how these houses physically document national trends in domestic space and record a remarkably uniform spatial evolution that can be traced throughout the country. Favorable government policies, along with such widely available print media as trade journals, home design magazines, and newspapers, permitted builders to establish a strong national presence and to make a more standardized product available to prospective buyers everywhere. This vast and long-lived collaboration between government and business—fueled by millions of homeowners—established the financial mechanisms, consumer framework, domestic ideologies, and architectural precedents that permanently altered the geographic and demographic landscape of the nation.
Author : Gary Burtless
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815704003
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2009 written by Gary Burtless and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on urban policy. The editors seek to integrate broader research into the urban policy discussion by bringing urban studies scholars together with economists and researchers studying subjects with important urban implications. In this issue, papers examine a range of issues that are relevant to urban economics: —the effects of job location in an urban area on residential choice patterns —the impact of race, ethnicity, and gender on mortgage lending —the effects of urban characteristics on the development of new patents The volume also contains three papers on urban development outside of the United States: —urban sprawl in Europe —rural-to-urban migration patterns in Brazil —location patterns of industry agglomeration across Japanese cities
Author : Sean-Shong Hwang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Suburbanization as a Sociocultural and Ecological Process written by Sean-Shong Hwang and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl J. Guarneri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459016
Total Pages : 775 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Teaching American History in a Global Context written by Carl J. Guarneri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive resource is an invaluable teaching aid for adding a global dimension to students' understanding of American history. It includes a wide range of materials from scholarly articles and reports to original syllabi and ready-to-use lesson plans to guide teachers in enlarging the frame of introductory American history courses to an international view.The contributors include well-known American history scholars as well as gifted classroom teachers, and the book's emphasis on immigration, race, and gender points to ways for teachers to integrate international and multicultural education, America in the World, and the World in America in their courses. The book also includes a 'Views from Abroad' section that examines problems and strategies for teaching American history to foreign audiences or recent immigrants. A comprehensive, annotated guide directs teachers to additional print and online resources.
Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Historic Residential Suburbs written by David L. Ames and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James T. Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019507680X
Total Pages : 2924 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Grand Expectations written by James T. Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 2924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving key cultural, economic, social, and political events, a history of the United States in the post-World War II era ranges from 1945, through a turbulent period of economic growth and social upheaval, to Watergate and Nixon's 1974 resignation
Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Was Postwar Suburbanization "white Flight"? written by Leah Platt Boustan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black influx by leaving cities and rule out an indirect effect on housing prices as a sole cause. I instrument for changes in black population by using local economic conditions to predict black migration from southern states and assigning predicted flows to northern cities according to established settlement patterns. The best causal estimates imply that each black arrival led to 2.7 white departures.
Author : Bernadette Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134004095
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Cities and Suburbs written by Bernadette Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and finally the extent and nature of their decline and renewal. Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US offers a comprehensive examination of demographic and socioeconomic processes of US suburbanization by providing a succinct guide to understanding the dynamic relationship between metropolitan structure and processes of social change. A variety of case studies are used in the chapters to explore suburban successes and failures and the discourse concludes with reflections on metropolitan policy and planning for the twenty-first century. The topics of discussion include: Key ideas and concepts on the demographic and sociospatial aspects of metropolitan change The changing nature of city and suburban population migration and their relationships with changes at the local, metropolitan, national, and global levels Current metropolitan public policy issues of large cities and suburbs Links of suburbanization to metropolitan transformation and the growing dichotomy between suburban decline and suburban sprawl in metropolitan areas. Cities and Suburbs relies on theorized case studies, demographic analysis, maps, and photos from North America. Written in a clear and accessible style, the book addresses various fundamental questions about the socioeconomic role that suburbs and cities play in shaping metropolitan areas, their environmental impact, the political consequences, and the resulting policy debates. This is essential reading for scholars and students of Geography, Economics, Politics, Sociology, Urban Studies and Urban Planning.
