Suburban Lives

Author : Margaret S. Marsh
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0813514843

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Suburban Lives by Margaret S. Marsh Pdf

Focusing on a variety of criminal activities, the author applies his structural criminology to the relationships of power which operate in a range of institutional spheres. He looks at the relationship between class and criminality, showing the inadequacy of a simple causal link and discussing the prevalence of "white collar" crime. Hagan sees other significant structures of power in the relative influence of corporate actors - for example large commercial establishments - who bring charges against individuals, and he analyzes both the legal outcome of such conflicts and the symbolic aspects of sentencing and judicial operations in general. Throughout, these essays stress the structural importance of unemployment, race and gender in the legal definitions of criminal behavior and the need to situate each factor within its complex of power relationships.

Author : Laura Vaughan
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781910634134

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Suburban Urbanities by Laura Vaughan Pdf

Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth.Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social, economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture, urban design, geography, history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean.By linking large-scale city mapping, urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies, the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice

Author : Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Connecticut
ISBN : 9781416925255

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Secrets of My Suburban Life by Lauren Baratz-Logsted Pdf

Lauren's father moves her out of New York City to a Connecticut suburb after her mother dies in a freak accident. She unsuccessfully tries to befriend the popular Farrin, but only discovers that Farrin has been corresponding online with an older man. While trying to prevent their meeting, Lauren is shocked to discover the man's identity.

Author : C. Spike Trotman,Diana Nock
Publisher : Iron Circus Comics
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781945820014

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Poorcraft by C. Spike Trotman,Diana Nock Pdf

Poorcraft is the essential comic book guide to practical urban and suburban frugality! Whether you're new to independent living, a recent college graduate or just downshifting to a simpler lifestyle, Poorcraft can help you with everything from finding a home to finding a hobby, dinner to debt relief, education to entertainment. It's time to cut your expenses! Or just make sure they never pile up.

Author : Anna B. F. Leigh Spencer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000674908

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Scenes of Suburban Life by Anna B. F. Leigh Spencer Pdf

Author : Matthew Lasner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300269345

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High Life by Matthew Lasner Pdf

The first comprehensive architectural and cultural history of condominium and cooperative housing in twentieth-century America. Today, one in five homeowners in American cities and suburbs lives in a multifamily home rather than a single-family house. As the American dream evolves, precipitated by rising real estate prices and a renewed interest in urban living, many predict that condos will become the predominant form of housing in the twenty-first century. In this unprecedented study, Matthew Gordon Lasner explores the history of co-owned multifamily housing in the United States, from New York City’s first co-op, in 1881, to contemporary condominium and townhouse complexes coast to coast. Lasner explains the complicated social, economic, and political factors that have increased demand for this way of living, situating the trend within the larger housing market and broad shifts in residential architecture and family life. He contrasts the prevalence and popularity of condos, townhouses, and other privately governed communities with their ambiguous economic, legal, and social standing, as well as their striking absence from urban and architectural history.

Author : Cheryl Cowdy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228012276

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Canadian Suburban by Cheryl Cowdy Pdf

Though a large proportion of Canadians live in suburban communities, the Canadian cultural imaginary is filled with other landscapes. The wilderness, the prairie, cityscapes, and small towns are the settings by which we define our nation, rather than the strip mall, the single-family home, and the developing subdivision, which for many are ubiquitous features of everyday life. Canadian Suburban considers the cultures of suburbia as they are articulated in English Canadian fiction published from the 1960s to the present. Cheryl Cowdy begins her excursion through novels set between 1945 and 1970, the heyday of modern suburban development, with works by canonical authors such as Margaret Laurence, Richard B. Wright, Margaret Atwood, and Barbara Gowdy. Her investigation then turns to the meaning of the suburbs within fiction set after the 1970s, when a more corporate model of suburbanization prevailed, and ends with an investigation of how writers from immigrant and racialized communities are radically transforming the suburban imaginary. Cowdy argues there is no one authentic suburban imaginary but multiple, at times contradictory, representations that disrupt prevalent assumptions about suburban homogeneity. Canadian Suburban provides a foundation for understanding the literary history of suburbia and a refreshing reassessment of the role of space and place in Canadian culture and identity.

Author : Walter David Greason
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475715

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Suburban Erasure by Walter David Greason Pdf

For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new framework for understanding both the history of the United States and of the world. Suburban Erasure by Walter David Greason contributes to the most recent developments in historical writing by recovering dozens of previously undiscovered works about the African-American experience in New Jersey. More importantly, his interpretation of these documents complicates the traditional understandings about the Great Migration, civil rights activism, and the transformation of the United States as a global, economic superpower. Greason details the voices of black men and women whose vision and sacrifices made the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. possible. Then, in the second half of this study, the limitations of this dream of integration become clear as New Jersey—a state that took the lead in showing American how to overcome the racism of the past—fell victim to a recurring pattern of colorblindness that entrenched the legacy of racial inequality in the consumer economy of the late twentieth century. Suburbanization simultaneously erased the physical architecture of rural segregation in New Jersey and ideologically obscured the deepening, persistent injustices that became the War on Drugs and the prison-industrial complex. His solution for the twenty-first century involves the most fundamental effort to racially integrate state and local government conceived since the Reconstruction Era. Suburban Erasure is a must read for people concerned with democracy, human rights, and the future of civil society.

Author : Markus Moos,Robert Walter-Joseph
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : 3868594574

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Still Detached and Subdivided? by Markus Moos,Robert Walter-Joseph Pdf

his book invites readers to act as 'flies on the wall' during the meeting of four town planners. Its intention is to make us rethink everything we think we know about suburbs. The planners are fictional, the concepts based on academic research, and the arguments substantiated by large amounts of data presented as visually stunning maps and data visualisations. The book offers an accessible yet rigorous account of suburbanisms as particular ways of living, demonstrating that aspects of this lifestyle occur simultaneously in urban and suburban places. The approach suggests that policy solutions to suburban sprawl need to move beyond treating suburbs as homogeneous places in need of urbanisation. SELLING POINTS: * Will radically remodel your ideas on suburbs and urban planning * A meeting between four fictional urban planners sets the stage for a theoretical discussion on suburban life * Accessible yet rigorous, with several eye-catching data maps and visualisations 80 colour images

Author : Amy B. Rogers
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508142041

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We Live in a Suburb by Amy B. Rogers Pdf

What is a suburb, and how is it different from a city or rural community? Readers find the answers to these questions and more through accessible text that reflects early social studies curriculum topics. Suburban communities are common across the United States, and readers explore one such community through accessible text and colorful photographs. While the close relationship between the text and photographs enhances reading comprehension skills, a detailed picture glossary aids in vocabulary development. A suburb is a fun place to live, and readers see why as they learn about this kind of community.

Author : Allison L. C. Emmerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192594099

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Life and Death in the Roman Suburb by Allison L. C. Emmerson Pdf

Defined by borders both physical and conceptual, the Roman city stood apart as a concentration of life and activity that was legally, economically, and ritually divided from its rural surroundings. Death was a key area of control, and tombs were relegated outside city walls from the Republican period through Late Antiquity. Given this separation, an unexpected phenomenon marked the Augustan and early Imperial periods: Roman cities developed suburbs, built-up areas beyond their boundaries, where the living and the dead came together in densely urban environments. Life and Death in the Roman Suburb examines these districts, drawing on the archaeological remains of cities across Italy to understand the character of Roman suburbs and to illuminate the factors that led to their rise and decline, focusing especially on the tombs of the dead. Whereas work on Roman cities has tended to pass over funerary material, and research on death has concentrated on issues seen as separate from urbanism, Emmerson introduces a new paradigm, considering tombs within their suburban surroundings of shops, houses, workshops, garbage dumps, extramural sanctuaries, and major entertainment buildings, in order to trace the many roles they played within living cities. Her investigations show how tombs were not passive memorials, but active spaces that facilitated and furthered the social and economic life of the city, where relationships between the living and the dead were an enduring aspect of urban life.

Author : Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135396398

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The Suburb Reader by Becky Nicolaides,Andrew Wiese Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Dines,Timotheus Vermeulen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472510327

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New Suburban Stories by Martin Dines,Timotheus Vermeulen Pdf

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

Author : Gretchen Buggeln
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452945637

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The Suburban Church by Gretchen Buggeln Pdf

After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvigorate Protestant worship and community. The result is a fascinating new perspective on postwar architecture, religion, and society. Drawing on the architectural record, church archives, and oral histories, The Suburban Church focuses on collaborations between architects Edward D. Dart, Edward A. Sövik, Charles E. Stade, and seventy-five congregations. By telling the stories behind their modernist churches, the book describes how the buildings both reflected and shaped developments in postwar religion—its ecumenism, optimism, and liturgical innovation, as well as its fears about staying relevant during a time of vast cultural, social, and demographic change. While many scholars have characterized these congregations as “country club” churches, The Suburban Church argues that most were earnest, well-intentioned religious communities caught between the desire to serve God and the demands of a suburban milieu in which serving middle-class families required most of their material and spiritual resources.

Author : Mary Austen
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508147367

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Vivimos en las afueras de la ciudad / We Live in a Suburb by Mary Austen Pdf

What is a suburb, and how is it different from a city or rural community? Readers find the answers to these questions and more through accessible text that reflects early social studies curriculum topics. Suburban communities are common across the United States, and readers explore one such community through accessible text and colorful photographs. While the close relationship between the text and photographs enhances reading comprehension skills, a detailed picture glossary aids in vocabulary development. A suburb is a fun place to live, and readers see why as they learn about this kind of community.