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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened
By Rosalyn Baxandall, Elizabeth Ewen
328 pages
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- Basic Books
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- New York
- Publication year:
- 2000
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Synopsis
When Baxandall and Ewen (both American studies, State U. of New York-Old Westbury) interviewed women in several Long Island communities about their real lives, they found that the stereotypes about suburbs have little to do with actual experience. Surmising from the interviews -- as well as diaries, scrapbooks, and other archival sources for earlier in the century -- they conclude that the suburbs have long been and still are centers of social and architectural experimentation where white, black, ...
When Baxandall and Ewen (both American studies, State U. of New York-Old Westbury) interviewed women in several Long Island communities about their real lives, they found that the stereotypes about suburbs have little to do with actual experience. Surmising from the interviews -- as well as diaries, scrapbooks, and other archival sources for earlier in the century -- they conclude that the suburbs have long been and still are centers of social and architectural experimentation where white, black, immigrant, gay, straight, old, young, married, divorced, and single people have struggled to improve their lives.
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Table of contents
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- Picture Windows *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgments *
- Introduction *
- Part One - The Beginnings *
- Chapter One - The Gold Coast *
- Chapter Two - The Second Industrial Revolution: Mass Production Makes a Dent *
- Chapter Three - Suburban Birth Pangs *
- Part Two - New Thoughts, New Deals *
- Chapter Four - Housing the Masses: Ideas and Experiments *
- Chapter Five - The New Deal: One Third of a Nation Still Unhoused *
- Chapter Six - The Common Good: Public or Private *
- Chapter Seven - World War Ii: Baptism by Fire *
- Part Three - Who Would House the Masses? *
- Chapter Eight - Postwar Housing Politics: the Mccarthy Hearings on Housing *
- Picture Windows *
- Title Page *
- Contents *
- Acknowledgments *
- Introduction *
- Part One - The Beginnings *
- Chapter One - The Gold Coast *
- Chapter Two - The Second Industrial Revolution: Mass Production Makes a Dent *
- Chapter Three - Suburban Birth Pangs *
- Part Two - New Thoughts, New Deals *
- Chapter Four - Housing the Masses: Ideas and Experiments *
- Chapter Five - The New Deal: One Third of a Nation Still Unhoused *
- Chapter Six - The Common Good: Public or Private *
- Chapter Seven - World War Ii: Baptism by Fire *
- Part Three - Who Would House the Masses? *
- Chapter Eight - Postwar Housing Politics: the Mccarthy Hearings on Housing *
- Chapter Nine - Home Ownership: is It Sound? *
- Chapter Ten - The Master Builders and the Creation of Modern Suburbia *
- Part Four - Suburban Life and Culture, Fifties Style *
- Chapter Eleven - The New Suburban Culture: Living in Levittown *
- Chapter Twelve - America, Love It or Levitt *
- Part Five - Suburbia Speaks *
- Chapter Thirteen - Suburban Segregation *
- Chapter Fourteen - The Battle for Integration *
- Chapter Fifteen - Old Towns, New Families *
- Part Six - Critical Junctions *
- Chapter Sixteen - Utopia Revisited *
- Chapter Seventeen - New Immigrants *
- Conclusion: Crossroads *
- Endnotes *
- Index *