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A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles..

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Author:   Robert Fishman
Publisher:   Basic Books
Imprint:   Basic Books
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 12.50cm
Weight:   0.288kg
ISBN:  

9780465007479

ISBN 10:   0465007473
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   31 March 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

* Introduction * London: Birthplace of Suburbia * Building the Bourgeois Utopia * The Suburb and the Industrial City: Manchester * Urbanity versus Suburbanity: France and the United States * The Classic Suburb: The Railroad Suburbs of Philadelphia * Los Angeles: Suburban Metropolis * Beyond Suburbia: The Rise of the Technoburb

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Robert Fishman, associate professor of history at Rutgers, is the author of Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century (Basic Books, 1977).

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