Metroburbia, USA /
Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America?s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of?metroburbia??fragmented mi...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
©2008.
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Mục lục:
- Introduction
- Prelude : the serial enchantment of suburbia
- Metroburbia and the anatomy of the new metropolis
- Developers' utopias
- Comfortably numb : degenerate utopias and evangelistic consultants
- The politics of privatism
- Material culture and society in metroburbia
- Vulgaria : moral landscapes at the leading edges of the new metropolis.