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OverviewMost Americans today live in the suburbs. Yet suburban voices remain largely unheard in sociological and cultural studies of these same communities. In this work, Paul Mattingly provides a model for understanding suburban development through his narrative history of Leonia, New Jersey, an early commuter suburb of New York City. Although Leonia is a relatively small suburb, a study of this kind has national significance because most of America's suburbs began as rural communities, with histories that predated the arrival of commuters and real-estate developers. Examining the dynamics of community cultural formation, Mattingly contests the prevailing urban and suburban dichotomy. In doing so, he seeks to offer a respite from journalistic cliches and scholarly bias about the American suburb, providing instead an insightful, nuanced look at the integrative history of a region. Mattingly examines Leonia's politics and culture through three eras of growth and change (1859-94, 1894-1920 and 1920-60). A major part of Leonia's history, Mattingly reveals, was its role as an attractive community for artists and writers, many contributors to national magazines, who created a ""suburban"" aesthetic. The work done by generations of Leonia's artists provides an important vantage and a wonderful set of tools for exploring evolving notions of suburban culture and landscape, which have broad implications and applications. Oral histories, census records and the extensive work of Leonia's many artists and writers come together to trace not only the community's socially diverse history, but to show how residents viewed the growth and transformation of Leonia as well. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul H. Mattingly (New York University)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.658kg ISBN: 9780801866807ISBN 10: 0801866804 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 14 February 2002 Recommended Age: From 17 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community Table Of Contents: Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Dutchness and the English Neighborhood 34 Chapter 2 The Village as as Voluntary Organization 64 Chapter 3 Village Landscapes 108 Chapter 4 The Trolley Produces a Country Town 145 Chapter 5 Country Landscapes, Bohemian City 205 Chapter 6 The Middle-Class Zone 252 Chapter 7 The Political Culture of Suburban Professionals 292 Chapter 8 The Ideology of the Civic Conference 327 Chapter 9 The Modernization of Suburban Memory 384 Chapter 10 Recovering Suburban Memory 434 Epilogue AppendicesReviews<p>Paul Mattingly presents a thoroughly researched social history of Leonia that challenges the critique of suburbia as lacking in community... The author's use of artistic images, oral histories, and contemporaneous newspaper accounts are instructive. His frequent focus on personalities is an appealing technique that helps to hold the reader's interest and move the story forward.--Dana Taplin The Public Historian <p> Presents readers with an alternative way to understand suburbs as communities in which people live and shape their desires, not merely as places under (sub) a city (urban)... The role of cultural memory in a small community's development and of how politics may be conceptualized through that memory, are both interesting and relatively unexplored avenues for understanding community development. It is this approach that makes Suburban Landscapes a valuable contribution. -- Maureen A. Flanagan, Urban Studies Author InformationPaul H. Mattingly is a professor of history at New York University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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