Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia by Robert Fishman
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
Bourgeois Utopias
Summary
A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
Bourgeois Utopias Summary
About Robert Fishman
Robert Fishman, associate professor of history at Rutgers, is the author of Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1977).
Table of Contents
* Introduction * London: Birthplace of Suburbia * Building the Bourgeois Utopia * The Suburb and the Industrial City: Manchester * Urbanity versus Suburbanity: France and the United States * The Classic Suburb: The Railroad Suburbs of Philadelphia * Los Angeles: Suburban Metropolis * Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb
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9780465007479
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Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia by Robert Fishman
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Basic Books
19890331
272
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