Suburban Landscapes
Subtitle: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community (Creating the North American Landscape)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: November 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780801866807
Subjects: American history; Cultural studies; Urban communities; United States - State & Local - General; Political Science; New Jersey - Local History; Urban Planning; Suburbs; Sociology; New York; USA; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Sociology - Urban; Landscape changes; City planning; History; Leonia; New Jersey
First sentence: This study concerns a single suburban community, Leonia, New Jersey, just outside New York City in northern Bergen County.
Description: "Most Americans today live in the suburbs. Yet suburban voices remain largely unheard in sociological and cultural studies of these same communities. In Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community, Paul H. Mattingly provides a new model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City."--BOOK JACKET.