suburbs

The suburbs are ending… not ending in the final way one may think of like a bad movie, but ending as they are known today. It is documented that a gamut of people are choosing to live differently than people of the past. Instead of the traditional American Dream of a house, on s…

In the decades after World War II, American Jews experienced unprecedented levels of financial mobility. But instead of celebrating the ostensible blessing of prosperity, many American Jews, and Jewish leaders in particular, expressed a good deal of ambivalence over their new ec…

This dissertation turns attention to the role middle class households with children play in processes of gentrification. Scholars have drawn attention to a burgeoning group of middle class families remaining in the city instead of suburbanizing upon the arrival of children. Ofte…