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The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.
Kenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History at Columbia University, is the author of The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930; Cities in American History; and a number of other books.
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A classic work on American suburbanization. Jackson offers a comprehensive account of the circumstances that allowed the transition of living in suburb as a luxury in early 19th to a common middle class lifestyle in the middle 20th century.
赶在年前读完了这本美国郊区史的著作。Crabgrass是野蛮生长的杂草，Frontier是已知与未知、文明与野蛮之间的边疆。在这个理论取向强烈的标题下，Jackson提供的却是偏向于经济解释的扎实的社会史。广袤廉价的土地、低廉的通勤成本、几乎无尽的能源、经济上可承受的独栋别墅构造、政府的住房补贴和公共住房政策（good or ill intended)、限制地方政府兼并的法律、以及无处不在的种族间的紧张关系，都以各自的方式促成了美国几乎独一无二的郊区化。对用单一变量解释郊区化的模型（比如交通）是有益的反驳/补充，与关注相似主题的谱系学研究（比如Fishman的Bourgeois Utopias）相得益彰。有趣的是，尽管学者在预测未来这件事上往往声名狼藉，历史学家似乎总比理论家更准确一点点。
作为美国郊区的一个居住者，一直都对美国独一无二的郊区化现象很感兴趣，这本书非常好地帮助我梳理了美国郊区化的历史进程，而且可读性也很高。作者在本书最后做出的80年代视角的预测显然有些过时了，如果要站在2020年做出一个预测，互联网科技发展、反传统郊区的新城市主义乃至2020年的瘟疫，将会分别对美国的郊区化有哪些影响呢？
This book is just so good! strongly recommended
Detailed data and process of surburbanization, with the thought-provoking conclution. Unfamiliar with history and govenment sysytem...
9/10. Classic.
like a textbook
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