Description
Book SynopsisAddresses key areas of concern and importance to urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowner's associations, and big box stores. Through the inclusion of examples and photos, this work creates an accessible portrait of the suburbs supported by data, anecdotes, and social theory.
Trade ReviewThis book is a major contribution to the literature of urban geography, urban planning, and urban studies. It is one of the first to bring the field of U.S. urbanization into the twenty-first century. Knox's interpretations make excellent sense of the new metropolitan scene. -- Peter O. Muller * professor of geography, University of Miami *
This scathing and thought-provoking critique of the latest additions to the built environment in the US is superbly done. Highly recommended. * Choice *
àlively, excoriating book... * Journal of the American Planning Association *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Prelude : the serial enchantment of suburbia
Metroburbia and the anatomy of the new metropolis
Developers' utopias
Comfortably numb : degenerate utopias and evangelistic consultants
The politics of privatism
Material culture and society in metroburbia
Vulgaria : moral landscapes at the leading edges of the new metropolis
