Crabgrass Frontier_The Suburbanization of the United States

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Introduction 1. Suburbs As Slums 2. The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City 3. Home, Sweet Home: The House and the Yard 4. Romantic Suburbs 5. The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads 6. The Time of the Trolley 7. Affordable Homes for the Common Man 8. Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation 9. The New Age of Automobility 10. Suburban Development Between the Wars 11. Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market 12. The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States 13. The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision 14. The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America 15. The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America 16. Retrospect and Prospect Appendix Notes Index