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Author : Leigh Gallagher
Release : 2014
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of the Suburbs by : Leigh Gallagher
Download or read book The End of the Suburbs written by Leigh Gallagher. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2013.
Author : Ashley Hales
Release : 2018-10-23
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 97X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Finding Holy in the Suburbs by : Ashley Hales
Download or read book Finding Holy in the Suburbs written by Ashley Hales. This book was released on 2018-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. Yet for many Christians, the suburbs are ignored, demeaned, or seen as a selfish cop-out from a faithful Christian life. What does it look like to live a full Christian life in the suburbs? Ashley Hales invites you to look deeply into your soul as a suburbanite and discover what it means to live holy there.
Author : Amanda Kolson Hurley
Release : 2019-04-09
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 373/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Radical Suburbs by : Amanda Kolson Hurley
Download or read book Radical Suburbs written by Amanda Kolson Hurley. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and rising poverty. The cliche of white picket fences is well past its expiration date. The history of suburbia is equally surprising: American suburbs were once fertile ground for utopian planning, communal living, socially-conscious design, and integrated housing. We have forgotten that we built suburbs like these, such as the co-housing commune of Old Economy, Pennsylvania; a tiny-house anarchist community in Piscataway, New Jersey; a government-planned garden city in Greenbelt, Maryland; a racially integrated subdivision (before the Fair Housing Act) in Trevose, Pennsylvania; experimental Modernist enclaves in Lexington, Massachusetts; and the mixed-use, architecturally daring Reston, Virginia. Inside Radical Suburbs you will find blueprints for affordable, walkable, and integrated communities, filled with a range of environmentally sound residential options. Radical Suburbs is a history that will help us remake the future and rethink our assumptions of suburbia.
Author : Marie Bouchet
Release : 2022-02-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 036/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Suburbs by : Marie Bouchet
Download or read book The Suburbs written by Marie Bouchet. This book was released on 2022-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While suburbs provide a rich field of research for sociologists, architects, urbanists and anthropologists, they have not been given much attention in literary and cultural studies. The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives sets out to enrich the limited existing body of critical analysis on the subject with a landmark collection of essays offering a far larger perspective than the books or collections published so far on the topic. This interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach includes literary and art studies, philosophy, and cultural comment. It examines the suburbs across cultural differences, contrasting British, South African and North American suburbs. The specificity of this book therefore lies in a cross-national and cross-continental exploration of these unchartered territories. The suburbs are redefined as those rebellious margins whose geographical borders are necessarily fuzzy and sketch out a common place where cultural frontiers can be transcended. They are, to use Sarah Nuttall’s terminology, places of “entanglement” where contraries meet and where new ways of being in the world is reborn. Seen through the prism of art and literature, the suburbs may then be recognized, as philosopher Bruce Bégout argues, as a “new way of thinking and making urban space.”
Author : Snarky N. Burbs
Release : 2012-12-11
Genre : Middle-aged women
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 963/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Snarky in the Suburbs by : Snarky N. Burbs
Download or read book Snarky in the Suburbs written by Snarky N. Burbs. This book was released on 2012-12-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spring Creek Elementary School PTA Board, a coven of Mean Moms dressed in Uggs, yoga pants, and dermal filler, is up to no good, and Wynn Butler (middle-aged, uncool and not bringing sexy back) is determined to find out what's going on. With help from her two kids, a Roomba vacuum turned mobile surveillance drone, and a few close friends, Wynn launches a covert investigation that leads to the mother of all revenge capers at the school's annual Fall Festival. If you've ever fantasized about smoke bombing the idiot parent who has yet to master the fine art of the school drop-off lane or standing up and shouting "Liar, liar Botox on fire!" during a PTA meeting, then this delicious tale of payback is for you. Based on the popular blog, Snarky in the Suburbs, that was recently optioned by ABC for film and television rights.
