Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form, and Function

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface xiii
• References xv
• Chapter 1 - Suburban Foundation, Form and Function 1
• Chapter 2 - British Suburban Taste, 1880-1939 32
• Chapter 3 - British ‘corporation Suburbia’: the Changing Fortunes of Norris Green, Liverpool 56
• Chapter 4 - England’s Garden Suburbs: Development and Change 76
• Chapter 5 - The Making of American Suburbs, 1900-1950s: a Reconstruction 91
• Chapter 6 - Suburbs of Desire: the Suburban Landscape of Canadian Cities, C. 1900-1950 111
• Chapter 7 - Running Rings Around the City: North American Industrial Suburbs, 1850-1950 146
• Chapter 8 - What Women’s Spaces? Women in Australian, British, Canadian and Us Suburbs 168
• References 180
• Chapter 9 - ‘gloria Soame’: the Spread of Suburbia in Post-War Australia 187
• Chapter 10 - Making Edge City: Post-Suburban Development and Life on the Frontier in Southern California 202
• Chapter 11 - Understanding Suburbs as Historic Landscapes Through Preservation 222

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface xiii
• References xv
• Chapter 1 - Suburban Foundation, Form and Function 1
• Chapter 2 - British Suburban Taste, 1880-1939 32
• Chapter 3 - British ‘corporation Suburbia’: the Changing Fortunes of Norris Green, Liverpool 56
• Chapter 4 - England’s Garden Suburbs: Development and Change 76
• Chapter 5 - The Making of American Suburbs, 1900-1950s: a Reconstruction 91
• Chapter 6 - Suburbs of Desire: the Suburban Landscape of Canadian Cities, C. 1900-1950 111
• Chapter 7 - Running Rings Around the City: North American Industrial Suburbs, 1850-1950 146
• Chapter 8 - What Women’s Spaces? Women in Australian, British, Canadian and Us Suburbs 168
• References 180
• Chapter 9 - ‘gloria Soame’: the Spread of Suburbia in Post-War Australia 187
• Chapter 10 - Making Edge City: Post-Suburban Development and Life on the Frontier in Southern California 202
• Chapter 11 - Understanding Suburbs as Historic Landscapes Through Preservation 222
• Chapter 12 239
• Index 269