Redefining suburban studies
Subtitle: searching for new paradigms
By: edited by Daniel Rubey ; introduction by Barbara M. Kelly
Contributors: Hofstra University. National Center for Suburban Studies; Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm (1st : 2001 : Hofstra University)
Publisher: The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hempstead, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780615319360
Subjects: Suburbs; History; Suburban life; Metropolitan areas; Vie de la banlieue; Histoire
Notes: "These essays began as papers delivered at the first Suburban Studies conference at Hofstra University entitled 'Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for a New Paradigm' in March 2001"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography (pages 167-169).
Table of contents: title: The state of the suburb at the beginning of the twenty-first century.; title: Suburbia and the American dream house  -- John Archer; title: The new urbanism :; title: a limited revolution --; title: The built environment of the suburban community.; title: Breaking the box :; title: building the suburbs as a fabric  -- Renee Y. Chow; title: Magazines and modernity :; title: the "home" magazines and the making of the ranch house, 1945-1950  -- Stephen James; title: The General Motors Technical Center :; title: material innovation and corporate image in the suburban landscape  -- Nancy A. Miller; title: The rise of the therapeutic suburb :; title: child care in Westchester County, New York, 1880-1920 --; title: Issues in the suburban community.; title: The new suburban flight :; title: a tale of three airports :; title: Stewart, Westchester and Islip  -- Joshua Schank and Elliott Sclar; title: The making of an auto-dependent edge city :; title: the case of Fairfax County, Virginia  -- Zachary M. Schrag; title: The early movement against suburban sprawl :; title: the metropolitan parks system in Boston and Detroit  -- Thomas A. McMullin; title: Moving walls :; title: restrictive covenants and residential mobility in Los Angeles  -- Leslie Wilson; title: (Re)constructing working-class motherhood in the suburban public housing project of Greenbelt, Maryland, 1935-1954  -- Jennifer Kerns; title: Legal texts as cultural narratives of postwar suburbia :; title: gender, power, and consumer protection  -- Andrea McArdle; title: Representations of suburban life.; title: Suburbia :; title: a sense of place on the silver screen  -- Philip C. Dolce; title: A suburban filmography  -- Philip C. Dolce; title: Tales of the suburbs  -- Catherine Jurca; title: Suburbia onstage  -- Kaye DeMetz; title: Photographing suburbia :; title: from sociology to art  -- Daniel Rubey; title: The Joseph G. Astman Lecture.; title: Rethinking the Crabgrass Frontier -- Kenneth T. Jackson.