This book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK

A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stor

Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization.

The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge citie