Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States — The Systems Behind Suburbia
How much of the American suburban landscape reflects private preference—and how much reflects the systems that made those preferences easier to pursue?
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In Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, historian Kenneth T. Jackson examines why American metropolitan development became unusually low-density, home-owning, decentralized, and automobile-dependent.
Jackson connects cultural aspirations for the private house and yard with transportation, land development, mortgage finance, racial…
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