Metroburbia, USA

by Knox, Paul L.

• ISBN13: 9780813543567
• ISBN10: 0813543568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Knox addresses key areas of concern and importance to todays urban planners and suburban residents including McMansions, traffic disasters, house design, homeowners associations, exclusionary politics, and big box stores. It is a broad interpretation of the American metropolitan form that looks carefully at the different influences that contribute to where and how we live today.

Author Biography

Paul Knox is University Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow for International Advancement at Virginia Tech, where he was dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies from 1997 to 2006.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Prelude: The Serial Enchantment of Suburbia	p. 13
Metroburbia and the Anatomy of the New Metropolis	p. 37
Developers' Utopias	p. 66
Comfortably Numb: Degenerate Utopias and Their Evangelistic Consultants	p. 89
The Politics of Privatism	p. 112
Material Culture and Society in Metroburbia	p. 132
Vulgaria: Moral Landscapes at the Leading Edges of the New Metropolis	p. 154
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 215
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