Jackson demonstrates how the evolution of transportation technology reshaped the urban landscape and allowed more and more people to achieve the garden life outside the city. The wealthy were able to achieve this ideal. It began with the romantic ideal of living in the countryside, while still having access to the commerce of the city. Suburbia has been around for many generations. A significant contribution this book has made is debunking the popular misconception that the suburbs were born after WWII. Most of his work is that of historical documentation of how suburbs evolved. It was on the front edge of a wave of suburban studies and framed much of the academic imagination thereafter. He published this history of the Suburbs in 1985. Jackson’s work-Crabgrass Frontier-is the most ubiquitous citation in my experience of studying suburbia. Professor of History and the Social Sciences at Columbia University My Thoughts Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
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