The Suburb Reader

Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese

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Routledge
24 May 2016

Urban communities; Human geography

"Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment—it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture.

Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essays, The Suburb Reader documents the rise of North American suburbanization from the 1700s through the present day. Through thematically organized chapters it explores multiple facets of suburbia’s creation and addresses its indelible impact on the shaping of gender and family ideologies, politics, race relations, technology, design, and public policy. Becky Nicolaides’ and Andrew Wiese’s concise commentaries introduce the selections and contextualize the major themes of each chapter. Distinctive in its integration of multiple perspectives on the evolution of the suburban landscape, The Suburb Reader pays particular attention to the long, complex experiences of African Americans, immigrants, and working people in suburbia. Encompassing an impressive breadth of chronology and themes, The Suburb Reader is a landmark collection of the best works on the rise of this modern social phenomenon.

New to the edition

The second edition incorporates important new research that explores the complex history and cultures of the American suburbs

More coverage of transnational cases and the influence of American suburbia internationally

More coverage of the post-financial crisis and housing crisis in the U. S.,including rising suburban inequality

The positive sides of suburban living are further emphasized, balancing the critical approaches of the text, including, ""best practices"" in policy.

Deeper coverage of ethnically diverse suburbs, including politics and lifeways in Asian American and Latino suburbs

Expanded coverage of recent exclusionary tactics, from cultural politics to violence in Ferguson

New material on popular culture representations, in film, television, music, and children’s literature

New coverage of the future of suburbs, including further economic, political, and social transformations and recent initiatives in sustainability and regional equity"

Edited by: Becky Nicolaides, Andrew Wiese
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 1.406kg
ISBN: 9781138818583
ISBN 10: 1138818585
Pages: 682
Publication Date: 24 May 2016
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Becky M. Nicolaides is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, a Research Affiliate at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, and the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Andrew Wiese is Professor of History at San Diego State University and the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century.

Reviews for The Suburb Reader

The Suburb Reader is the essential guide to the history of the world’s first suburban nation. Nicolaides and Wiese have assembled an extraordinary collection of documents, illustrations, and maps, augmented with well-chosen essays by field-defining scholars. I can’t wait to teach this book. —Thomas J. Sugrue, Kahn Professor of History and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania This fabulous collection brings together richly textured documents and classic scholarly essays to illuminate how the United States became a suburban nation. Ideally suited for students, scholars, and general readers, the book includes multiple views of the suburbs—pro and con—and delves deeply into issues of race, class, gender, and politics. The Suburb Reader enriches our understanding not only of suburbia, but of America itself. —Elaine Tyler May, author of Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era