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Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000
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April 3, 2019
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DW Rowlands
This book was a really interesting summary of a number of periods and movements in the history of American suburbanization, and I learned quite a lot from it, as well as being encouraged to think about implications I hadn't previously considered.

In particular, as someone who loves Boston's and many of DC's streetcar suburbs, it was helpful to read about some of the problems with streetcar-suburb development, and it was very interesting to learn more about the mail-order house movement: I hadn't
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