Visions of Suburbia
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 5 December 1996
- ISBN 9780415107174
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 610 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familar. 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 to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire; to create for middle class middle cultures, 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 point 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. _
Long description:
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 to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire; to create for middle class middle cultures, 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 point 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. _
'A fascinating collection of essays on the production, consumption and representation of suburbia.' - The Year's Work 96
Table of Contents:
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?
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