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Author / Creator:Knox, Paul L.
Imprint:New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182963
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ISBN:9780813545158
0813545153
0813543568
9780813543567
0813543576
9780813543574
9780813543567
9780813543574
1281776467
9781281776464
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
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Summary:Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America?s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of?metroburbia??fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics. Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes.
Other form:Print version: Knox, Paul L. Metroburbia, USA. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813543567 0813543568