Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. He treats communities in every section of the U.S. and compares American residential patterns with those of Japan and Europe. In conclusion, Jackson offers a controversial prediction: that the future of residential deconcentration will be very different from its past in both the U.S. and Europe.

• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition (Princeton Classics)
• A Pickpocket's Tale: The Underworld of Nineteenth-Century New York
• The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth-Century America
• The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives)
• Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It (Historical Studies of Urban America)
• White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Politics and Society in Modern America)
• When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor