Add to ORKGThis American Studies project explored the relationship between two novels and a short story to the suburban landscape. The aim was to discover what created the desire for such disconnected, privatized lives and stopped America from becoming primarily urban? I concluded that cooperating external forces, such as the federal government, the real estate industry, automobile corporations and developers, influenced the move from cities to suburbs. While the history and design of suburbs displayed an overexaggerated ideal, suburban literature portrayed the suburb\u27s inhabitants lived experience
My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literatu...
Item does not contain fulltextSuburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: w...
Most Americans now live in suburban places. While suburbs are common throughout the country today, t...
In the decades following World War II the American landscape underwent a profound change as suburbs ...
The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960...
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a mono...
The thesis paper focuses on the American suburbia, which is understood as an important social and cu...
This study surveys the historical geography of suburban landscapes built and abandoned over the cour...
The sociological phenomenon of the post-World War II suburban boom launched suburbia as an essential...
In the years following the end of World War II, a new kind of landscape emerged in the United States...
My dissertation examines recent novels and films that represent contemporary suburban experience, su...
Urban historian Dr. Kenneth Jackson classifies the suburbs “the quintessential physical achievement ...
Conventional literary and filmic representations of the American suburbs depict a space that is eith...
This thesis project explores the conflicting identities of suburbia: suburbia as a consumer product ...
In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The e...
My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literatu...
Item does not contain fulltextSuburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: w...
Most Americans now live in suburban places. While suburbs are common throughout the country today, t...
In the decades following World War II the American landscape underwent a profound change as suburbs ...
The Literature of Suburban Change examines the diverse body of cultural material produced since 1960...
The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as well as a mono...
The thesis paper focuses on the American suburbia, which is understood as an important social and cu...
This study surveys the historical geography of suburban landscapes built and abandoned over the cour...
The sociological phenomenon of the post-World War II suburban boom launched suburbia as an essential...
In the years following the end of World War II, a new kind of landscape emerged in the United States...
My dissertation examines recent novels and films that represent contemporary suburban experience, su...
Urban historian Dr. Kenneth Jackson classifies the suburbs “the quintessential physical achievement ...
Conventional literary and filmic representations of the American suburbs depict a space that is eith...
This thesis project explores the conflicting identities of suburbia: suburbia as a consumer product ...
In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The e...
My PhD engages with a number of recent works of fiction in order to understand how American literatu...
Item does not contain fulltextSuburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: w...
Most Americans now live in suburban places. While suburbs are common throughout the country today, t...