Suburb : planning politics and the public interest / by Hanson, Royce

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Second suburb : Levittown, Pennsylvania /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A second suburb / Dianne Harris -- pt. 1. Looking at Levittown from the inside -- Revealing the history of Levittown, one voice at a time / Chad M. …”
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The promise of the suburbs : a Victorian history in literature and culture / by Bilston, Sarah

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Streetcar suburbs : the process of growth in Boston, 1870-1900 / by Warner, Sam Bass, 1928-2023

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Written Suburb : an American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma. by Dorst, John D.

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Written Suburb : an American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma. by Dorst, John D.

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Second suburb : Levittown, Pennsylvania /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : A second suburb / Dianne Harris -- pt. 1. Looking at Levittown from the inside -- Revealing the history of Levittown, one voice at a time / Chad M. …”
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Nuclear suburbs : Cold War technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance / by Vitale, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Engineering the bubble -- Going critical : technoscience, the Cold War, and the Pittsburgh Renaissance -- Research and Renaissance : renewing the city for scientists -- The invention of research man -- The Monroeville doctrine : how the suburbs shaped Cold War science -- Finding a home in the nuclear suburbs -- Invisibilities of nuclear engineering -- Warplace/workplace : technoscientific jobs during the Cold War -- Epilogue: Did science save Pittsburgh?…”
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Changing suburbs : foundation, form, and function /

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Surrogate suburbs : black upward mobility and neighborhood change in Cleveland, 1900-1980 / by Michney, Todd M.

Table of Contents: “…"Second ghetto" or surrogate suburb?: black mobility in the twentieth-century outer city -- The roots of upward mobility: outlying black settlement before 1940 -- Expanding black settlement in the 1940s: Glenville and Mount Pleasant -- Zoning, development, and residential access: Lee-Miles in the 1950s and 1960s -- Racial residential transition at the periphery: neighborhood contrasts -- Mobility and insecurity: dilemmas of the black middle class -- Urban change and reform agendas in Cleveland's black middle-class neighborhoods, 1950-1980.…”
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Manufacturing Suburbs : Building Work And Home. by Lewis, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Preface; 1 Industry and the Suburbs; 2 Beyond the Crabgrass Frontier: Industry and the Spread of North American Cities, 1850-1950; 3 The Emergence of Industrial Districts in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Baltimore; 4 Model City? …”
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City Suburbs : Placing suburbia in a post-suburban world. by Mace, Alan

Table of Contents: “…; Participation; Summary; 7 Change in outer London; Introduction; Policy turns; Ethnicity and change; Place and porosity; Summary; 8 Placing the suburbs; Introduction; Place; Placing in historical context; Beyond Anglo-American histories; History and meaning-making; Placing meaning; Place as relational; Conclusions; Appendix; References.…”
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Shocking the Suburbs : Oil Vulnerability in the Australian City. by Dodson, Jago

Table of Contents: “…Contents; An unfamiliar world; Solving housing problems by creating suburbs; Towards uneasy oil; Shocking the city: Higher fuel and housing costs in the suburbs; Oil and politics:The impact of rising fuel costs on suburban constituencies; Oil-proofing Australian cities:Transport and planning solutions to oil vulnerability; Aftershocks: Facing the challenge of oil vulnerability in Australia's cities; Acknowledgments; Notes.…”
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Saving our suburbs. Part 1, How to create successful suburbs

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Saving our suburbs. Part 2, How to seize emerging opportunities

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Chronicle of an American suburb /

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From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959 / by Henthorn, Cynthia Lee, 1963-

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Screening the Paris suburbs : from the silent era to the 1990s /

Table of Contents: “…9 A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe10 Godard's suburban years; 11 The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau; 12 Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80; 13 Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968; 14 Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau; 15 What's left of the 'red suburb'? …”
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McCarthyism in the Suburbs : Quakers, Communists, and the Children's Librarian / by Hepler, Allison

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Twentieth-Century Suburbs : a Morphological Approach. by Carr, C. M. H.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Dedication; 1. Conceptions of Suburbs; The origins and growth of suburbs; The significance of the single-family house; Intellectuals' views; Professionals' views; Popular taste and the speculative builder; Reappraising suburbs; 2. …”
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Black power in the suburbs : the myth or reality of African-American suburban political incorporation / by Johnson, Valerie C.

Table of Contents: “…Black Power in the Suburbs -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. …”
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Scenes from the suburbs : suburban space in US film and television / by Vermeulen, Timotheus

Table of Contents: “…Title page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Scenes from the Suburbs; CHAPTER 1 Pleasantville: The Suburb as World; CHAPTER 2 Happiness: The Suburb and Film Style; CHAPTER 3 The Simpsons and King of the Hill: The Suburb as Texture; CHAPTER 4 Desperate Housewives: The Suburb as Social Space; CHAPTER 5 Teen Noir: The Suburb as Lived Space; Conclusion: 'Upward, Yet Not Northward'; Bibliography; Filmography; Teleography; Index.…”
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Suburbs under Siege : Race, Space, and Audacious Judges. by Haar, Charles M.

Table of Contents: “…Prologue. A NATION OF SUBURBS --…”
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Landscapes of Privilege : Aesthetics and Affluence in an American Suburb. by Duncan, James

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Butrint 6 : the Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb. by Greenslade, Simon

Table of Contents: “…The mosaic pavement of the basilica: John Mitchell; INTERPRETATION AND DISCUSSION; 12. The Roman suburb on the Vrina Plain and its issues: Simon Greenslade and Richard Hodges…”
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Making sense of suburbia through popular culture by Huq, Rupa, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The Relationship between Suburbia and Popular Culture; Culture and representation; The suburban context; Suburbia and shifting national norms; Structure and omissions: Popular culture missing in action; Conclusion: New popular cultural paradigms; 2 Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels; Pre-war antecedents: The narrative of English decline in Coming Up for Air; Post-war Americana; Sex and the suburbs; Macabre suburbia.…”
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White Diaspora : the Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel. by Jurca, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Cover; WHITE DIASPORA; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; Tarzan, Lord of the Suburbs; CHAPTER TWO; Sinclair Lewis and the Revolt from the Suburb; CHAPTER THREE; Mildred Pierce's Interiors; CHAPTER FOUR; Native Son's Trespasses; CHAPTER FIVE; Sanctimonious Suburbanites and the Postwar Novel; EPILOGUE; Same As It Ever Was (More or Less); NOTES; INDEX.…”
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The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs. by Garoogian, David

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; User Guide; Information for Metropolitan Areas; Information for Suburban Communities; American Suburbs; Akron, Ohio; Albany, New York; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Allentown, Pennsylvania; Atlanta, Georgia; Austin, Texas; Bakersfield, California; Baltimore, Maryland; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Birmingham, Alabama; Boston, Massachusetts; Bridgeport, Connecticut; Buffalo, New York; Cape Coral, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Columbia, South Carolina.…”
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Changing suburbs, changing students : helping school leaders face the challenges / by Wepner, Shelley B., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The changing suburbs --…”
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The comparative guide to American suburbs : covers 2,765 suburban communities in the 75 largest metro areas-- with rankings.

Table of Contents: “…""Cover""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""User's Guide""; ""Metropolitan Areas""; ""National Rankings""; ""Metropolitan Area Index""; ""Suburb Index""…”
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The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs by Garoogian, David

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Social infrastructure and vulnerability in the suburbs / by Lo, Pui-Chun Lucia, 1948-, Anisef, Paul, Wang, Shuguang, 1956-, Preston, Valerie A, Basu, Ranu, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…York Region, a Prime Example of the Outer Suburbs -- The Evolving Outer Suburbs -- A History of Diversity -- Existing Infrastructure -- The Metropolitan Context -- Emerging Geographies -- 3. …”
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Variations of Suburbanism : Approaching a Global Phenomenon. by Schönig, Barbara

Table of Contents: “…Meritorious objectives and arguable substance in Dutch suburbiaThe dynamics of the Eastern European suburbs. Kazan, Kyiv and Bucharest; Suburban development in Argentina: a historical overview and the current trends. …”
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Planning the new suburbia : flexibility by design by Friedman, Avi, 1952-

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Exploring society. Lesson 20, Population & urbanization. Part 7

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Driving after Class : Anxious Times in an American Suburb / by Heiman, Rachel

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Black American Students in An Affluent Suburb : a Study of Academic Disengagement. by Ogbu, John U.

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Henry Ford's plan for the American suburb : Dearborn and Detroit / by Barrow, Heather B.

Table of Contents: “…The urban plans of Henry Ford -- Suburbs and the working class -- The automobile and urban growth -- Rising standards in the suburbs -- The lives of automobile workers -- The transformation of Fordism -- Detroit metropolis after Henry Ford.…”
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Black Women's Christian Activism : Seeking Social Justice in a Northern Suburb. by Adams, Betty Livingston

Table of Contents: “…Please allow me space: race and faith in the suburbs -- A great work for God and humanity: African American Christian women and organized social reform -- The home away from home: suffrage, war, and civic righteousness -- Unholy and unchristian attitude: interracial dialogue in segregated spaces, 1920-1937 -- Putting real American ideals in American life: church women and electoral politics -- Carthage must be destroyed: health, housing, and the new deal -- You just as well die with the ague as with the fever.…”
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Smart Growth or Dumb Bureaucracy? by Bishop, Timothy S.

Subjects: “…Suburbs United States.…”
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