Crabgrass frontier

Description:

Throughout history, the treatment and arrangement of shelter have revealed more about a particular people than have any other products of the creative arts. This book is about American housing. The physical organization of our neighborhoods, roads, yards, houses, and apartments sets up a living pattern that conditions our behavior. The physical pattern of housing development that Americans have chosen reflects a deliberate choice to emphasize separateness in our most dominant residential housing pattern: that of suburbia. Suburbia manifests fundamental American characteristics such as conspicuous consumption, a reliance upon the private automobile, upward mobility, the separation of the family into nuclear units, the widening division between work and leisure, and a tendency toward racial and economic exclusiveness. Several themes that recur in this book and are fundamental to understanding the suburban pattern of living are the importance of land developers, cheap housing lots, inexpensive construction methods, improved transportation technology, abundant energy, government subsidies, and racial stress. Finally, this book indicates that suburbanization has been as much a governmental as a natural process.

subjects: History,  Suburbs,  Social conditions,  Housing,  Suburban life,  Amerika,  Vie de la banlieue,  Conditions sociales,  Histoire,  Banlieues,  Logement,  Suburbanisatie,  Huisvesting,  Vorort,  Vie en banlieue,  Vorstadt,  HISTORY,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Popular Culture,  Soziale Situation,  20th Century,  Geschichte,  United states, social conditions,  New York Times reviewed,  Sociology,  Urban,  Vida suburbana,  Vivienda,  Historia,  Condiciones sociales,  Sociale situatie,  Huisvestingsbeleid

Places: United States,  États-Unis