When America Became Suburban /

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Robert A. Beauregard examines the intersection of urban decline, suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Placing the decline of America's cities and the rise of the suburbs into a cultural, political, and global context, Beaur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beauregard, Robert A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urbanization.
Suburbs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Urbanisation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Banlieues > États-Unis > Histoire.
Urbanization > United States > History.
Suburbs > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The short American century
  • Urbanization's consequences
  • Parasitic urbanization
  • Culture and institutions
  • Domestic prosperity
  • Ways of life
  • America's global project
  • Identity and urbanity
  • Appendix A: Decennial population loss for the fifty largest U.S. cities, 1820-2000
  • Appendix B: Demographic and economic comparisons across periods of urbanization
  • Appendix C: Measures of urbanization for historical periods.

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