Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-226) and index.
Contents
An introduction to the suburban century -- The city spreads: technological, economic and official forces in urban dispersal -- The suburban aspiration -- Black suburbanization -- Jewish and Asian suburbanization -- Women and suburban sadness -- Suburban citizens: community and association in the new housing areas of the twentieth century -- The middle way: labour, the Democrats and the suburbs since 1950 -- Past, present and future: some conlusions and connections.