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02879aam a2200361 i 4500 001 A30C2E46004111EEBB5E2E0C29ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230601010039 008 220817s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022037232 020 $a 0197599249 020 $a 9780197599242 035 $a (OCoLC)1341343977 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HT351 $b .A23 2023 082 00 $a 307.7409 $2 23/eng/20220817 100 1 $a Abbott, Carl, $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a Suburbs : $b a very short introduction / $c Carl Abbott. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 140 pages : $b illustrations : $c 18 cm. 490 0 $a Very short introductions 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "This book explores two centuries of suburban growth as integral to global urbanism. It argues that the future of an urbanizing world will be a suburban world and presents suburbs as places that are interesting and viable on their own terms rather than simply poor cousins of big cities. Examples come from every peopled continent, offering glimpses of suburbs from London to Lima, Sao Paolo to Singapore, Cairo to Chicago, and Dublin to Delhi. The approach is both historical and thematic. The book first traces the history of suburban development in England and North America to 1940 and then examines three different trajectories of suburbanization in more recent decades. The United States and other nations drawing on British planning traditions have built low density suburbia characterized by owner-occupied housing, dependence on automobiles, planned new towns, and a legacy of racial residential segregations. High-rise housing built by national governments dominated suburban rings in Eastern Europe and parts of Western Europe and East Asia. Where neither government nor private market has been able to meet demand, residents have acted themselves to create informal communities with self-built housing on cheap peripheral land, sometimes misleadingly called shantytowns. After this world tour, a chapter explores suburban rings as places of work, from early dispersed manufacturing and industrial suburbs to research and development suburbs in developed economies about the world. Another thematic chapter examines the negative and even dystopian reputation of suburbs and sprawl in literature, popular media, and science fiction"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Suburbs $x History. 650 0 $a Urbanization $x History. 650 7 $a Suburbs. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01136941 650 7 $a Urbanization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01162722 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20230601010127.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A30C2E46004111EEBB5E2E0C29ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search