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“SUBURBANIZATION IN AMERICA”

Special Topics List
from 2006-07

(Compiled by Profs. Clifford Clark & Richard Keiser)

Baxandall, Rosalyn F. and Elizabeth Ewen. 2000. Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened. New York: Basic Books.

Beuka, Robert. Suburbia Nation: Reading Suburban Landscape in 20th century American Fiction & Film. Palgrave: Macmillan, 2004.

Calthorpe, Peter. Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2001.

Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Jackson, Kenneth. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford, 1985.

Kelly, Barbara. Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

May, Elaine Tyler. Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era. New York: Basic Books, 1988.

McShane, Clay. Down the Asphalt Path: The Automobile and the American City. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Nicolaides, Becky M. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Rome, Adam Ward. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Novel: T. C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain. New York: Viking, 1995.

Films: No Down Payment. (1957. D: Martin Ritt)
Avalon. 1990. (D: Barry Livinson)
American Beauty. (1999. D: Sam Mendes)