Crabgrass Frontier
The Suburbanization of America
by Kenneth T. Jackson · first published 1985
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Throughout history, the treatment and arrangement of shelter have revealed more about a particular people than have any other products of the creative arts. This book is about American housing. The physical organization of our neighborhoods, roads, yards, houses, and apartments sets up a living pattern that conditions our behavior. The physical pattern of housing development that Americans have chosen reflects a deliberate choice to emphasize separateness in our most dominant residential housing pattern: that of suburbia. Suburbia manifests fundamental American characteristics such as cons
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…than for any other form of housing. Federal housing and transportation policy have also promoted suburban over urban development in myriad other ways; for a broad take, I recommend Kenneth Jackson's book Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1985), https://www.amazon.com/Crabgrass-Frontier-Suburbanization-Un....
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on “Subsidizing Suburbia: A forgotten history of how the government created suburbia” ↗…segregated white neighborhoods. “For perhaps the first time, the federal government embraced the discriminatory attitudes of the marketplace,” the historian Kenneth T. Jackson wrote in his 1985 book, Crabgrass Frontier, a history of suburbanization. “Previously, prejudices were personalized and individualized; FHA exhorted segregation and enshrined it as public policy. Whole areas of cities were declared ineligible…
on “This Is My Racism” ↗…https://inkspire.org/post/amsterdam-was-a-car-loving-city-in... Jane Jacobs wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_Am... The book Crabgrass Frontier was published in 1985: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabgrass_Frontier The Geography of Nowhere was published in 1993: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geography_of_Nowhere We've know for decades…
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