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Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0195132874
Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199840342
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 : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199763146
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 : Kenneth T. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0195049837
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 : David M. P. Freund
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226262772
Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclusion—away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship. Freund begins his exploration by tracing the emergence of a powerful public-private alliance that facilitated postwar suburban growth across the nation with federal programs that significantly favored whites. Then, showing how this national story played out in metropolitan Detroit, he visits zoning board and city council meetings, details the efforts of neighborhood “property improvement” associations, and reconstructs battles over race and housing to demonstrate how whites learned to view discrimination not as an act of racism but as a legitimate response to the needs of the market. Illuminating government’s powerful yet still-hidden role in the segregation of U.S. cities, Colored Property presents a dramatic new vision of metropolitan growth, segregation, and white identity in modern America.
Author : Eric Schlosser
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Convenience foods
ISBN : 0395977894
An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.
Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807835432
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th c
Author : Stanley L. Engerman,Robert E. Gallman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521553083
Volume III surveys the economic history of the United States and Canada during the twentieth century.
Author : Iain Gately
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781781854051
Each working day 500 million people across the planet experience the miracle and misery of commuting. Whether undertaken by car, bus, train or bicycle, the practice shapes our days and creates a time and a space for a surprisingly diverse range of activities. In RUSH HOUR, Iain Gately traces the past, present and future of commuting, from the age of Dickens to the potential of the driverless car. He examines the contrasting experiences of commuters in Britain and elsewhere in the world: from the crush-loaded salarymen of the Tokyo metro to the road-rage afflicted middle managers of America. Notwithstanding its occasional traumas, commuting emerges as a positive aspect of modern life. It has dictated the growth of cities; been proving ground for new technologies; and given countless people freedom of movement and the opportunity to improve their lives.
Author : David George Surdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190211561
At the end of the 19th century, economist Thorstein Veblen wrote 'The Theory of the Leisure Class.' A century later, the economic conditions in America had changed beyond recognition. Improvements in agricultural productivity led to better nutrition and triggered improved productivity and living standards throughout the economy. American workers chose to take the benefits accruing from economic growth in the form of higher wages, shorter workweeks, better working conditions and increased leisure. This text charts the rise of leisure activities during this period. -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Joseph S. Cialdella
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822987024
Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Motor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century. The book focuses primarily on the history of gardens and parks in the city of Detroit and its suburbs in southeast Michigan. Cialdella argues Detroit residents used green space to address problems created by the city’s industrial rise and decline, and racial segregation and economic inequality. As the city’s social landscape became increasingly uncontrollable, Detroiters turned to parks, gardens, yards, and other outdoor spaces to relieve the negative social and environmental consequences of industrial capitalism. Motor City Green looks to the past to demonstrate how today’s urban gardens in Detroit evolved from, but are also distinct from, other urban gardens and green spaces in the city’s past.
Author : David Stebenne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982102715
"Explains how the American middle class ballooned at mid-century until it dominated the nation, showing who benefited and what brought the expansion to an end"--
Author : NICK FYFE,JUDITH KENNY
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780429603860
Drawing on a rich diversity of theoretical approaches and analytical strategies, urban geographers have been at the forefront of understanding the global and local processes shaping cities, and of making sense of the urban experiences of a wide variety of social groups. Through their links with those working in the fields of urban policy design, urban geographers have also played an important role in the analysis of the economic and social problems confronting cities. Capturing the diversity of scholarship in the field of urban geography, this reader presents a stimulating selection of articles and excerpts by leading figures. Organized around seven themes, it addresses the changing economic, social, cultural, and technological conditions of contemporary urbanization and the range of personal and public responses. It reflects the academic importance of urban geography in terms of both its theoretical and empirical analysis as well as its applied policy relevance, and features extensive editorial input in the form of general, section and individual extract introductions. Bringing together in one volume 'classic' and contemporary pieces of urban geography, studies undertaken in the developed and developing worlds, and examples of theoretical and applied research, it provides in a convenient, student-friendly format, an unparalleled resource for those studying the complex geographies of urban areas.
Author : Douglas E. Booth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742527182
This accessible and provocative book explores whether getting 'unhooked' from economic growth to meet the needs of the environment is possible. Although giving the environment priority over growth may seem radical, the author argues that it can be accomplished using marketable emissions allowances, transferable development rights, and other tools popular with conventional economists. It can also be achieved by creating more interesting and environmentally friendly urban landscapes less beholden to the automobile. The key problem will be ensuring that everyone who wants employment can find it. This will require a transition to a shorter workweek, the wistful goal of many a harried worker. More leisure, a higher-quality environment, and more attractive cities and towns are the potential rewards of a less consumption-oriented society. Yet how can the power of special interests be overcome in the name of environmental conservation? This is the author's critical final question as he offers a clear path to a sustainable economic and environmental future.
Author : Scott L. Bottles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052091113X
More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.