Metroburbia, USA /

Metroburbia, USA / / Paul L Knox.

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Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America's metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of "metroburbia&quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Knox, Paul L,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 18
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND TABLES
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER 1. Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2. Prelude: THE SERIAL ENCHANTMENT OF SUBURBIA
  • CHAPTER 3. Metroburbia and the Anatomy of the New Metropolis
  • CHAPTER 4. Developers' Utopias
  • CHAPTER 5. Comfortably: Numb DEGENERATE UTOPIAS AND THEIR EVANGELISTIC CONSULTANTS
  • CHAPTER 6. The Politics of Privatism
  • CHAPTER 7. Material Culture and Society in Metroburbia
  • CHAPTER 8. Vulgaria: MORAL LANDSCAPES AT THE LEADING EDGES OF THE NEW METROPOLIS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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