Suburbia, Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognizable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of 1930s Britain and the unfenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clap...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London [u.a.] Routledge 1997
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Banlieues Middenklassen Stadscultuur Suburbanisatie Vie de la banlieue dans la culture populaire Suburban life in popular culture Suburbs Stadtrandsiedlung Vorort Massenkultur Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	Suburbia, Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognizable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of 1930s Britain and the unfenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of 1950s Sydney. Architecture and landscapes may vary from one suburban scene to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire: to create for middle class middle cultures in middle spaces in middle America, Britain and Australia. Visions of Suburbia considers this emergent architectural space, this set of values and this way of life. The contributors address suburbia and the suburban from the points of view of its production, its consumption and its representation. Placing suburbia centre stage, each essay examines what it is that makes suburbia so distinctive and what it is that has made suburbia so central to contemporary culture.
Beschreibung:	XIII, 313 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:	0415107164 0415107172