Visions of Suburbia

ISBN 10: 0415107172 / ISBN 13: 9780415107174

Published by Routledge, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visions of Suburbia
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415107172
• ISBN 13: 9780415107174
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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. _

About the Author

Roger Silverstone