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Being American on the Edge
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 90.00The book explains the interaction of dream and landscape on America's urban borderlands. more...
Boomburbs
Brookings Institution Press 2006; US$ 22.95A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ''cities'' reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing?including many of their ten million residents.... more...
Changing Japanese Suburbia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 250.00Published in the year 1991, Changing Japanese Suburbia is a valuable contribution to the field of Social Science. more...
Changing Suburbs
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 170.00The editors and contributors to this volume demonstrate how suburbs and the meaning of suburbanism change both with time and geographical location. Here the disciplines of history, geography and sociology, together with subdisciplines as diverse as gender studies, art history and urban morphology, are brought together to reveal the nature of suburbia... more...
Die Amerikanisierung der Wiener Suburbia?
Springer Fachmedien 2008; US$ 54.99It's a Sprawl World After All
New Society Publishers 2005; US$ 17.95Makes the startling connection between suburban sprawl and the violent breakdown of American society. more...
Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 30.99We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives . Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema,... more...
Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture
Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 30.99We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives . Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema,... more...
Manufacturing Suburbs
Temple University Press 2008; US$ 29.95Urban historians have long portrayed suburbanization as the result of a bourgeois exodus from the city, coupled with the introduction of streetcars that enabled the middle class to leave the city for the more sylvan surrounding regions. Demonstrating that this is only a partial version of urban history, Manufacturing Suburbs reclaims the history... more...
The Margins of City Life
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 110.99Focuses on the social margins of city life - the "faubourgs", or suburbs, where rural migrants and the labouring poor of French cities congregated in growing numbers in the first half of the 19th century. The text examines the cultural and social traditions which took root in these areas. more...









