328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
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Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of fifties Sydney. Architecture and landscapes may vary from one suburban scene... Read more
Introduction; 1: Colonial suburbs in south asia, 1 700–1 850, and the spaces of modernity; 2: Excavating the multicultural suburb: Hidden histories of the bungalow; 3: A Stake in the country: Women's experiences of suburban development; 4: The suburban weekend: Perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream; 5: Tupperware: Suburbia, sociality and mass consumption; 6: Deep suburban irony: The perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York; 7: The sexualization of suburbia: The diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere; 8: From theatre to space ship: Metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America; 9: Negotiating the gnome zone: Versions of suburbia in British popular culture; 10: The suburban sensibility in british rock and pop; 11: The worst of all possible worlds?
Biography
Roger Silverstone
'A fascinating collection of essays on the production, consumption and representation of suburbia.' - The Year's Work 96
