Metroburbia, USA / Paul L. Knox.

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Knox, Paul L

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computer

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online resource

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9780813545158
0813545153
0813543568
9780813543567
0813543576
9780813543574

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Metroburbia, USA.DDC classification:

307.760973 22

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HT352.U6 K56 2008eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics. Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.

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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 mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics. Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes.

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