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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 mi...

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1. Verfasser: Knox, Paul L.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
ISBN:9780813545158
0813545153
0813543568
9780813543567
0813543576
9780813543574

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