Picture windows : how the suburbs happened
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Picture windows : how the suburbs happened
Basic Books, c2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: [pbk.] ISBN 9780465070138
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Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair
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: [hbk.] ISBN 9780465070459
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A clear and engaging portrait of the twentieth century American suburbwhere it came from and where it is goinghighlighting the changing racial, ethnic, and class composition of suburban life.. In Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter nave stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling historical analysis that situates the development of the suburbs in relation to the pivotal issues of postwar American life. They examine the years from World War II to the present, chronicling the transformation of rural lands into tidy, uniform subdevelopments that promised all of the comforts of postwar technology. }In Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter nave stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling historical analysis that situates the development of the suburbs in relation to the pivotal issues of postwar American life. They examine the years from World War II to the present, chronicling the transformation of rural lands into tidy, uniform subdevelopments that promised all of the comforts of postwar technology.
The building of the suburbs, the authors argue, was conducted in the context of heated debates over the American standard of living, visionary planners and architects attempts to solve the housing crisis, womens liberation, and racial segregation. Baxandall and Ewen use interviews with hundreds of residents of three Long Island suburbs to weave together a story about suburbs past and present, and ultimately to insist on the centrality of suburban experience in the second half of the twentieth century. }
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