pt. 1. The emergence of suburbia, 1750-1940 -- The transnational origins of the elite suburb -- Family and gender in the making of suburbia -- Technology and decentralization -- Economic and class diversity on the early suburban fringe -- The politics of early suburbia -- Imagining suburbia: visions and plans from the turn of the century -- The other suburbanities: class, racial, and ethnic diversity in early suburbia -- The tools of exclusion: from local initiatives to federal policy -- pt. II. Postwar suburbia, 1940-1970 -- Postwar America: suburban apotheosis -- Critiques of postwar suburbia -- Postwar suburbs and the construction of race -- The city-suburb divide -- pt. III. Recent suburbia, 1970 to the present -- The political culture of suburbia -- Recent suburban transformations, 1970-2000 -- Our town: inclusion and exclusion in recent suburbia -- The future of suburbia.
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According to the 2000 Census, fifty percent of Americans live in suburbs, signifying a dramatic reversal of patterns since the 1920s. This work collects the best writings on such suburbs and includes scholarly essays, documents, and magazine and newspaper articles.