The capital of the U.S. Empire after World War II was not a city. It was an American suburb. In this innovative and timely history, Andrew Friedman chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions created a U.S. imperial home front in the suburbs of Northern Virgi…
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens…
"A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading." "More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and s…
"Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in…
"The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that creates the gl…
"A paradoxical situation emerged in the late 1990s: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban American dream, even as the possibilities for achieving and maintaining it diminished. Driving After Class explores middle-class anxieties and suburban life during those years. Drawing on …
"Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere. American suburban sprawl has created a giant human habitat stretching from Las Vegas to San Diego, and…
El autor explora "la difusión descentralizada de Silicon Valley de California, las atestadas calles de la ciudad de Nueva York barrio de Jackson Heights, el crecimiento controlado de Portland, Oregon, y las fachadas etapa-establecidos de la comunidad planificada de Disney, Celeb…
This work discusses the forces (transportational, economic, political) that create the underlying form of cities. The author argues that urban life has broken down due to a basic ignorance of how these forces shape the urban environment.
