{"product_id":"making-suburbia-new-histories-of-everyday-america-hardback-9780816692965","title":"Making Suburbia; New Histories of Everyday America (Hardback) 9780816692965","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Suburbia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Histories of Everyday America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Archer (Edited by), Paul J. P. Sandul (Edited by), Katherine Solomonson (Edited by), Margaret Crawford (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816692965\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 90\u003cbr\u003e25.4 x 17.8 x 5.1 cm, 0.932 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Contributors attempt to remove stereotypes-- plenty are called out-- and to legitimate suburbs as a field of study. The topics covered here might fall into several fields ranging from sociology to urban planning, remain peripheral to them, or provoke further investigation.\"-\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The book succeeds in demolishing the single sterile stereotype of suburbia.\"-\u003ci\u003ePlanning Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Demonstrating suburbia’s mobility as both metaphor and materiality, the collection’s diverse accounts of communities, families, and their dwellings evidence how the borders between the cul-de-sac and beyond remain malleable. Take together, the collection answers “yes” to the question, “Do these places matter?” and reaffirms the call for scholars to further study the complexity of suburbia.\"-\u003ci\u003eHistorical Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I greatly enjoyed reading \u003ci\u003eMaking Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e and highly recommend it for academic study as well as personal interest.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Planning Education and Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are the suburbs? The popular vision of monotonous streets curving into culs-de-sac and emerald lawns unfurling from nearly identical houses would have us believe that suburbia is a boring, homogeneous, and alienating place. But this stereotypical portrayal of the suburbs tells us very little about the lives of the people who actually live there. \u003ci\u003eMaking Suburbia \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a diverse collection of essays that examine how the history and landscape of the American suburb is constructed through the everyday actions and experiences of its inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom home decor and garage rock to modernist shopping malls and holiday parades, contributors explore how suburbanites actively created the spaces of suburbia. The volume is divided into four parts, each of which addresses a distinct aspect of the ways in which suburbia is lived in and made. More than twenty essays range from Becky Nicolaides’s chronicle of cross-racial alliances in Pasadena, to Jodi Rios’s investigation of St. Louis residents’ debates over public space and behavior, to Andrew Friedman’s story of Cold War double agents who used the suburban milieu as a cover for their espionage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePresenting a wide variety of voices, \u003ci\u003eMaking Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that suburbs are a constantly evolving landscape for the articulation of American society and are ultimately defined not by planners but by their inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Anna Vemer Andrzejewski, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Heather Bailey, History Colorado State Historical Fund; Gretchen Buggeln, Valparaiso U; Charity R. Carney, Western Governors U; Martin Dines, Kingston U London; Andrew Friedman, Haverford College; Beverly K. Grindstaff, San JosÉ State U; Dianne Harris, U of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign; Ursula Lang, U of Minnesota; Matthew Gordon Lasner, Hunter College; Willow Lung-Amam, U of Maryland, College Park; Becky Nicolaides, U of California, Los Angeles; Trecia Pottinger, Oberlin College; Tim Retzloff, Michigan State U; Jodi Rios, U of California, Berkeley; Christopher Sellers, Stony Brook U; David Smiley, Columbia U; Stacie Taranto, Ramapo College of New Jersey; Steve Waksman, Smith College; Holley Wlodarczyk, U of Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Making, Performing, Living Suburbia\u003cbr\u003eJohn Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Mobilizing\u003cbr\u003e1. The Social Fallout of Racial Politics: Civic Engagement in Suburban Pasadena, 1950–2000\u003cbr\u003eBecky Nicolaides\u003cbr\u003e2. Race, Planning, and Activism on Philadelphia’s Main Line\u003cbr\u003eTrecia Pottinger\u003cbr\u003e3. Defending “Women Who Stand by the Sink”: Suburban Homemakers and Anti-ERA Activism in New York State\u003cbr\u003eStacie Taranto\u003cbr\u003e4. Gay Organizing in the “Desert of Suburbia” of Metropolitan Detroit\u003cbr\u003eTim Retzloff\u003cbr\u003e5. Ecological Preservation in Suburban Atlanta\u003cbr\u003eChristopher Sellers\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Representing\u003cbr\u003e6. Metaburbia: The Evolving Suburb in Contemporary Fiction\u003cbr\u003eMartin Dines\u003cbr\u003e7. Suburban Memory Works: Historical Representation and Meaning in Orangevale, California\u003cbr\u003ePaul J. P. Sandul\u003cbr\u003e8. Does This Place Really Matter? The Preservation Debate in Denver’s Postwar Suburbs\u003cbr\u003eHeather Bailey\u003cbr\u003e9. Yards and Everyday Life in Minneapolis\u003cbr\u003eUrsula Lang\u003cbr\u003e10. Suburban Rhetorics: Planning and Design for American Shopping, 1930–1960\u003cbr\u003eDavid Smiley\u003cbr\u003e11. This Old House of the Future: Remixing Progress and Nostalgia in Suburban Domestic Design\u003cbr\u003eHolley Wlodarczyk\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Gathering\u003cbr\u003e12. Everyday Racialization: Contesting Space and Identity in Suburban St. Louis\u003cbr\u003eJodi Rios\u003cbr\u003e13. The Vibrant Life of Asian Malls in Silicon Valley\u003cbr\u003eWillow Lung-Amam\u003cbr\u003e14. Spaces for Youth in Suburban Protestant Churches\u003cbr\u003eGretchen Buggeln\u003cbr\u003e15. Sanctifying the SUV: Megachurches, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Suburban Christian\u003cbr\u003eCharity R. Carney\u003cbr\u003ePart IV. Building\u003cbr\u003e16. The Fabric of Spying: Double Agents and the Suburban Cold War\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Friedman\u003cbr\u003e17. Selling Suburbia: Marshall Erdman’s Marketing Strategies for Prefabricated Buildings in the Postwar United States\u003cbr\u003eAnna Vemer Andrzejewski\u003cbr\u003e18. A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room: Hi-Fidelity Sound, Stereo Systems, and the Postwar House\u003cbr\u003eDianne Harris\u003cbr\u003e19. Suburban Noise: Getting Inside Garage Rock\u003cbr\u003eSteve Waksman\u003cbr\u003e20. The Complex: Social Difference and the Suburban Apartment in Postwar America\u003cbr\u003eMatthew Gordon Lasner\u003cbr\u003e21. The Outdoor Kitchen and Twenty-first Century Domesticity\u003cbr\u003eBeverly K. 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