Cultures of the Suburbs

Bibliographical Resources

Suburban Studies: Suggested Further Reading

Architecture, Planning, Suburban Geographies

Anacker, Katrin B., ‘Shaky Palaces? Analyzing Property Values and their Appreciation Rates in Minority First Suburbs’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36.4 (2012), pp. 791-816

– – – , Analyzing Mature Suburbs in Ohio through Property Values (Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2009)

– – – , ‘Queering the Suburbs: Analyzing Property Values in Male and Female Same-Sex Suburbs in the United States’, in Petra L. Doan (Ed), Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 107-125.

– – – , ‘Still Paying the Race Tax? Analyzing Property Values in Homogenous and Mixed-Race Suburbs’, Journal of Urban Affairs 32.1 (2010), pp. 55-77

Anacker, Katrin B. and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones, ‘Playing Both ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside Games’? Evidence from Expert Interviews in Mature Suburbs in Ohio’, Urban Geography 32.2 (2011), pp. 244-262

– – – , ‘Mature Suburbs, Property Values, and Decline in the Midwest? The Case of Cuyahoga County’, Housing Policy Debate 19.3 (2008), pp. 519-549

Archer, John, Architecture and Suburbia: from English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)

– – – , ‘Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850′ in Roger Silverstone (Ed), Visions of Suburbia (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 26-54

Carr, C. M. H. and J.W.R. Whitehead, Twentieth-Century Suburbs: A Morphological Approach (London and New York: Routledge, 2001) Planning, History and Environment Series

Case Scheer, Brenda and Kiril Stanilov, Suburban Form: An International Perspective (New York and London: Routledge, 2004)

Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: North Point Press, 2001)

Ehrenhalt, Alan, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City (New York and Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf and Random House, 2012)

Forsyth, Ann, ‘Defining Suburbs’, Journal of Planning Literature 27:3 (2012), pp. 270-281

Gregory Jenny, ‘Obliterating History? The Transformation of Inner City Industrial Suburbs’, Australian Historical Studies 39:1 (2008), pp. 91-106

Griffiths, S., M. Haklay, C.E. Jones, and L. Vaughan, ‘The Persistence of Suburban Centres in Greater London: Combining Conzenian and Space Syntax Approaches’, Urban Morphology 14:2 (2010), pp. 85 – 99

Griffiths, S., M. Haklay, C.E. Jones, and L. Vaughan, ‘The Sustainable Suburban High Street: a Review of Themes and Approaches’, Geography Compass 2:4 (2008), pp. 1155-1188

Gupta, Rajat and Matt Greg, ‘Adapting UK Suburban Neighbourhoods and Dwellings for a Changing Climate’, Advances in Building Energy Research 5:1 (2011), pp. 81-108

Hanlon, Bernadette, John Rennie Short, and Thomas J. Vicino, Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2010)

Hanlon, Bernadette and Thomas Vicino, ‘The Fate of the Inner Suburbs: Evidence from Metropolitan Baltimore’, Urban Geography 28:3 (2007), pp. 249-275

Harris, Richard and Peter J. Larkham (Eds), Changing Suburbs: Foundation, Form and Function (London, and New York: E & FN Spon, Routledge, 1999)

– – – , Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto’s American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 1996)

Hawson, Louise, 52 Suburbs: A Search for Beauty in the Burbs (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2011)

Hayden, Dolores, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (New York: Vintage, 2003)

– – – , Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life, (revd and expanded edn) (New York: Norton, 2002)

Hirt, Sonia, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs and Privatisation of Space in the Post-socialist City (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Studies in Urban and Social Change series

Irazábal, Clara, ‘Beyond “Latino New Urbanism”: Advocating Ethnurbanisms’, Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability (special issue on Latino Urbanism: Placemaking in 21st Century American Cities), 5:2/3 (2012), pp. 241-68.

– – – , ‘Localizing Urban Design Traditions: Gated and Edge Cities in Curitiba’, Journal of Urban Design 11:1 (2006), pp. 73-96

Irazábal, Clara and Ramzi Farhat, ‘Latino Communities in the United States: Place-Making in the Pre-World War II, Post-World War, and Contemporary City’, Journal of Planning Literature 22:3 (2008), pp. 207-228

Jones, C. E. M., E. Haklay, S. Griffiths, S., and L. Vaughan, ‘A Less-is-more Approach to Geovisualization: Enhancing Knowledge Construction across Multidisciplinary Teams’, International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 23:8 (2009), pp. 1077 – 1093

Keil, Roger (Ed), Suburban Constellations: Governance, Land and Infrastructure in the 21st Century (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2013)

– – – , ‘Suburbanization and Global Cities’ in Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox (Eds), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (London: Edward Elgar, 2011)

King, Anthony D., ‘Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories of the Bungalow’, in Roger Silverstone (Ed), Visions of Suburbia (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 55-85.

Lewis, Robert D. (Ed), Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)

Lukez, Paul, Suburban Transformations (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007)

Mace, Alan, City Suburbs: Placing Suburbia in a Post-Suburban World (Routledge, 2013)

Madden Jr, James, Randolph: Boston’s Gateway Suburb (2010)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Abstract: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59578

Mumford, Lewis, The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations, and its Prospects, 1961 (London: Pelican, 1966)

Munoz, Francesco, ‘Lock Living: Urban Sprawl in Mediterranean Cities’, Cities 20:6 (2003), pp. 381-385

Nicolaides, Becky and Andrew Wiese (Eds), The Suburb Reader (London: Routledge, 2006)

Nicolaides, Becky M., My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2002)

Rubey, Daniel (Ed), Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for New Paradigms (Hofstra: National Center for Suburban Studies, 2009)

Saunders, William S. (Ed), Sprawl and Suburbia (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005) A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Sewell, John, The Shape of the Suburbs: Understanding Toronto’s Sprawl (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2009)

Schwartz, David D., Suburban Xanadu: the Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond (London and New York: Routledge, 2003)

Shields, Rob, Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity (London and New York: Routledge, 1991)

Silverstone, Roger (Ed), Visions of Suburbia (London: Routledge, 1997)

Singer, Audrey, Susan Wiley Hardwick, and Caroline B. Brettell (Eds), Twenty-first Century Gateways: Immigrant Incorporation in Suburban America (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008)

Swenarton, Mark, ‘Tudor Walters and Tudorbethan: Reassessing Britain’s Inter-War Suburb ‘, Planning Perspectives 17:3 (2002), pp. 267-286

Vaughan, L., C.E. Jones, S. Griffiths, and M. Haklay, ‘The Spatial Signature of Suburban Town Centres’, The Journal of Space Syntax 1:1 (2010), pp. 77-91

Vaughan, L., S. Griffiths, M. Haklay, and C.E. Jones, ‘Do the Suburbs Exist? Discovering Specificity and Complexity in Suburban Form’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 34:4 (2009), pp. 475-488

Vitale, Patrick, ‘Learning to be Suburban: the Production of Community in Westwood Hills, Pennsylvania, 1952-1958′, Journal of Historical Geography 35:4 (2009), pp. 743-768

Walks, Alan, ‘Suburbanism as a Way of Life, Slight Return’, Urban Studies at 50 50:8 (June 2013), pp. 1471-1488

Webster, Roger (Ed), Expanding Suburbia: Reviewing Suburban Narratives (New York: Berghahn Books, 2000) Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections Volume 6

Globalisation

Archer, John, ‘Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850′ in Roger Silverstone (Ed), Visions of Suburbia (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 26-54

Brenner, Neil and Roger Keil (Eds), The Global Cities Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 2006) Urban Reader Series

Carpio, Genevieve, Clara Irazábal and Laura Pulido, ‘The Right to the Suburb? Rethinking Lefebvre and Immigrant Activism’, Journal of Urban Affairs 33:2 (2011), pp. 185-208

Case Scheer, Brenda and Kiril Stanilov, Suburban Form: An International Perspective (New York and London: Routledge, 2004)

Chang, Shenglin E. and Willow Lung-Amam, ‘Born Glocal: Youth Identity and Suburban Spaces in the U.S. and Taiwan’, Amerasia Journal 36:3 (2010), pp. 29-52

Irazábal, Clara, ‘Beyond “Latino New Urbanism”: Advocating Ethnurbanisms’, Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability (special issue on Latino Urbanism: Placemaking in 21st Century American Cities), 5:2/3 (2012), pp. 241-68.

Keil, Roger, ‘Suburbanization and Global Cities’ in Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox (Eds), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (London: Edward Elgar, 2011)

Keil, Roger and D. Young, ‘Post-Suburbia and City Region Politics’ in Nick Phelps and Fulong Wu (Eds), International Perspectives on Suburbanization: A Post-Suburban World? (London and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011)

King, Anthony D., ‘Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories of the Bungalow’, in Roger Silverstone (Ed), Visions of Suburbia (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 55-85.

Nunes, João Pedro S., Florestas de Cimento Armado. Os Grandes Conjuntos Residenciais e a Constituição da Metrópole de Lisboa 1955-2005 (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2011)

Rupa, Huq, ‘Capital Gains: BrAsian Suburban North-West London’, in N. Ali, V. S. Kalra and S. Sayyid (Eds), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (London: Hurst & Co, 2006), pp. 305-314

Urban, Florian, ‘Mumbai’s suburban mass housing’, Urban History  39:1 (February 2012), pp. 128-148

Friesen, Wardlow, Lawrence Murphy and Robin Kearns, ‘Spiced-up Sandringham: Indian Transnationalism and New Suburban Spaces in Auckland, New Zealand’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 31:2 (March 2005), pp. 385-401

History

Baldassare, Mark, Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation of America (New York: Columbia UP, 1986)

Bass Warner, Jr, Sam, Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP and MIT Press, 1962)

Baxandall, Rosalyn and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (New York: Basic Books, 2001)

Beauregard, Robert, When America Became Suburban (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Berger, Bennett M. Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia (Berkeley and Los Angeles: California UP, 1968)

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream (Ohio: Ohio State University, 2001) Urban Life and Landscape Series Blumin, Stuart M., ‘The Center Cannot Hold: Historians and

the Suburbs’, Journal of Policy History 2:1 (January 1990), pp. 118-129

Clapson, Mark, Working Class Suburb: Social Change on an English Council Estate 1930-2010 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012)

– – – , Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the United States (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003)

Cooper, Timothy, ‘Politics and place in the working-class suburb, Walthamstow 1870-1900′, in B. Doyle (Ed), Urban Life and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) pp. 160-172

– – – , ‘London-over-the-border: politics in suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914′, in M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (Eds), London Politics, 1760-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) pp. 211-232

Corbin Sies, Mary, ‘North American Urban History: the Everyday Politics and Spatial Logics of Metropolitan Life’, Urban History 32:1 (2003), pp. 28-42

Cunningham, Gail, ‘London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier’ in Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber (Eds), London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007) pp. 7-25

Dobriner, William M., Class in Suburbia (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963)

Douglass, Paul Harlan, The Suburban Trend, 1925 (New York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1970)

Duany, Andrés, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (New York: North Point Press, 2001)

Ehrenhalt, Alan, The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City (New York and Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf and Random House, 2012)

Fishman, Robert, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (New York: Basic Books, 1987)

Frankenberg, Erica and Orfield, Gary, The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2012)

French, Christopher, ‘Who Lived in Suburbia? Surbiton in the Second Half of the 19th Century,’ Family Community History 10:2 (2007), pp. 93-109

Gallagher, Leigh, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving (Portfolio, 2013)

Gans, Herbert J. The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (London: Allen Lane, 1967)

Garreau, Joel, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (New York: Random House, 1991)

Giles, Judy, The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Oxford: Berg, 2003)

Gordon, Richard E., Katherine K. Gordon and Max Gunther, The Split-Level Trap (New York: Bernard Geis, 1960)

Harris, Dianne (Ed), Second Suburb: Levittown, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010) Culture, Politics and the Built Environment Series

Harris, Richard, Craig Heron and Colin M. Coates, Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)

Harris, Richard and Michael E. Mercier, ‘How Healthy Were the Suburbs?’, Journal of Urban History 31:6 (2005), pp. 767-798

Jackson, Kenneth, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Oxford: OUP, 1985)

Keats, John, The Crack in the Picture Window (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956)

Kelly, Barbara M., Expanding the American Dream: Building and Rebuilding Levittown, Foreword William R. Taylor (Albany: State University of NY Press, 1993)

– – – , (Ed) Suburbia Re-Examined (New York, Westport, CN and London: Greenwood Press, 1989)

Kenyon, Amy Maria, Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004)

Kruse, Kevin M. and Thomas J. Sugrue (Eds), The New Suburban History (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2006) Historical Studies of Urban America Series

Lacey, Karyn R., Blue-chip Black: Race, Class and Status in the New Black Middle Class (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007)

Murphy, Alexandra K., ‘The Suburban Ghetto: the Legacy of Herbert Gans in Understanding the Experience of Poverty in Recently Impoverished American Suburbs’, City Community 6:1 (2007), pp. 21-37

Panetta, Roger G. (Ed), Westchester: The American Suburb (New York: Hudson River Museum, 2006)

Panton, Jane Ellen, Suburban Residences and How to Circumvent Them (Cambridge: CUP, 2012 (1896))

Pooley, Colin and Sian Pooley, ‘Constructing a Suburban Identity: Youth, Femininity and Modernity in Late-Victorian Merseyside’, Urban History 36 (2010), pp. 402-410

Martinson, Tom, American Dreamscape: The Pursuit of Happiness in Post-war Suburbia (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2000)

Mumford, Lewis, The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations, and its Prospects, 1961 (London: Pelican, 1966)

Nicolaides, Becky and Andrew Wiese (Eds), The Suburb Reader (London: Routledge, 2006)

Nicolaides, Becky M., My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: Chicago UP, 2002)

Stilgoe, John R., Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988)

Sugg Ryan, Deborah, ‘Living in a “Half-Baked Pageant”: The Tudorbethan Semi and Suburban Modernity in Britain, 1918-39′, Home Cultures 8:3 (November 2011), pp. 217-244

Life Writing

Beers, David, Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America’s Fall from Grace (New York: Doubleday, 1996)

Conrad, Pamela, Our House: The Stories of Levittown (New York: Scholastic, Inc., 1995)

Jacobson, Joanne, Hunger Artist: A Suburban Childhood (Huron, Ohio: Bottom Dog Press, 2007)

Katz, Donald, Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America (New York: HarperCollins, 1992)

Waldie, D. J., Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (New York and London: Norton, 2005)

– – – , Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles (Santa Monica, CA: AngelCity Press, 2004)

Literary, cultural and media studies

Archer, John, “Everyday Suburbia: Lives and Practices”, Public: Art Culture Ideas 43 (2011), pp. 21-30

Beuka, Robert, Suburbianation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Booth, Kate, ‘Risdon Vale: Place, Memory, and Suburban Experience’, Ethics, Place, Environment 11:3 (2008), pp. 299-311

Cowdy, Cheryl, ‘Do Something! Disciplinary Spaces and the Ideological Work of Play in James de Mille’s The B.O.W.C. and Richard Scrimger’s Into the Ravine‘, Jeunesse 5:1 (2013), pp. 16-37

Dines, Martin and Timotheus Vermeulen (Eds), New Suburban Stories (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) Studies in the City Series

Dines, Martin, Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2009)

Decker, William Merrill, Kodak Elegy: A Cold War Childhood (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012)

Douglas, William, Television Families: Is Something Wrong in Suburbia? (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003)

Edwards, Sarah and Jonathan Charley (Eds), Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity (London: Routledge, 2011)

Felton, Emma and Christy Collis, ‘Creativity and the Australian Suburbs: the Appeal of Suburban Localities for the Creative Industries’, Journal of Australian Studies 36:2 (2012), pp. 177-190

Giles, Judy, The Parlour and the Suburb: Domestic Identities, Class, Femininity and Modernity (Oxford: Berg, 2003)

Gill, Jo, The Poetics of the American Suburbs (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Jurca, Catherine, White Diaspora: The Suburb and the Twentieth-Century American Novel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001)

– – – , ‘Tales of the Suburb’ in Daniel Rubey (Ed), Redefining Suburban Studies: Searching for New Paradigms (Hofstra: National Center for Suburban Studies, 2009), pp. 171-9

Laurier, Eric, Angus Whyte and Kathy Buckner, ‘Neighbouring as an Occasioned Activity: “Finding a Lost Cat”‘, Space and Culture 5:4 (2008), pp. 346-367

Lien, M. and A. Davison, ‘Roots, rupture and remembrance: The Tasmanian lives of Monterey Pine’, Journal of Material Culture 15:2 (2010), pp. 233-253

Murphy, Bernice M., The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)

Muzzio, Douglas and Thomas Halper, ‘Pleasantville?: The Suburbs and Its Representation in American Movies’, Urban Affairs Review 37 (March 2002), pp. 543-574

O’Reilly, Nathanael, Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel (Amherst, NY: Teneo Press, 2012)

O’Reilly, Nathanael, ‘Environmental Degredation, Indigenous Displacement, and Non-Indigenous Belonging: Suburbia in Tim Winton’s “Aquifer” and Davison, Liam, “Neary’s Horse”‘, Commonwealth Essays and Studies 32:2 (Spring 2010), pp. 47-60

– – – , ‘Rejecting and Perpetuating the Anti-Suburban Tradition: Representations of the Suburbs in The Tax Inspect, Johnno and Cloudstreet‘, Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature 20:1 (June 2006), pp. 20-25

Peddie, Ian, ‘The Wrong Side of Town: A Walk on the Wild Side in an Age of Reaction’ in Josh Lukin (Ed), Invisible Suburbs: Recovering Protest Fiction in the 1950s United States (University Press of Mississippi, 2008), pp. 23-40

Phelps, N. A., ‘The Sub-Creative Economy of the Suburbs in Question’, International Journal of Cultural Studies 15:3 (2012), pp. 259-271

Rodriguez, Joseph A., City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999)

Spigel, Lynn, Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2001)

Politics

Barker, Paul, The Freedoms of Suburbia (London: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2009)

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, Suburban Alchemy: 1960s New Towns and the Transformation of the American Dream (Ohio: Ohio State University, 2001) Urban Life and Landscape Series

Brenner, Neil and Roger Keil (Eds), The Global Cities Reader (Routledge, 2006) Urban Reader Series

Clapson, Mark, Working Class Suburb: Social Change on an English Council Estate 1930-2010 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012)

– – – , Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the United States (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2003)

Cooper, Timothy, ‘Politics and place in the working-class suburb, Walthamstow 1870-1900′, in B. Doyle (Ed), Urban Life and Politics in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Regional Perspectives (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) pp. 160-172

– – – , ‘London-over-the-border: politics in suburban Walthamstow, 1870-1914′, in M. Cragoe and A. Taylor (Eds), London Politics, 1760-1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) pp. 211-232

Cunningham, Gail, ‘London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier’ in Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber (Eds), London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007) pp. 7-25

Dobriner, William M., Class in Suburbia (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1963)

Gallagher, Leigh, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving (New York: Penguin / Portfolio, 2013)

Gans, Herbert J., The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community (London: Allen Lane, 1967)

Hager, Carol, ‘Revisiting the Ungovernability Debate:  Regional Governance and Sprawl in the USA and UK’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36:4 (July 2012), pp. 817-830

Hall, M. and B. Lee, ‘How Diverse are US Suburbs?’, Urban Studies 47:1 (2009), pp. 3-28

Huq, Rupa, ‘The Sound of the Suburbs: The Shaping of Englishness and the Socio-Cultural Landscape After New Labour’ in Mark Perryman (Ed), Imagined Nation: England after Britain (Lawrence and Wishart Ltd, 2008), pp. 49-62

– – -, ‘Capital Gains: BrAsian Suburban North-West London’, in N. Ali, V. S. Kalra and S. Sayyid (Eds), A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain (London: Hurst & Co, 2006), pp. 305-314

Mattingly, Paul H., Suburban Landscapes: Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community (Baltimore & London: The John Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Quinby, Rohan, Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011) Semaphore Series

Rodriguez, Joseph A., City Against Suburb: The Culture Wars in an American Metropolis (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999)

Sociology

Berger, Bennett M. Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia (Berkeley and Los Angeles: California UP, 1968)

Clapson, Mark, Working Class Suburb: Social Change on an English  Council Estate 1930-2010 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012)

Gottdiener, Mark and Ray Hutchinson, The New Urban Sociology (4^th Edn) (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2010)

Niedt, Christopher (ed.) Social Justice in the Diverse Suburb: History, Politics, and Prospects  (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013)

Niedt, Christopher  “Gentrification and the Grassroots: Popular Support in the Revanchist Suburb.” Journal of Urban Affairs, 28.1 (2006), pp. 99-120.

Sustainability

Davison, Aidan, ‘A Domestic Twist on the Eco-efficiency Turn: Technology, Environmentalism, Home’ in R. Lane and A Gorman-Murray (Eds), Material Geographies of Household Sustainability (London: Ashgate, 2011) pp. 35-49

– – – , ‘Living Between Nature and Technology: The Suburban Constitution of Australian Environmentalism’ in D. White and C. Wilbert (Eds), Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces and Places in the Twenty-first Century (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009) pp. 171-193.

– – – , ‘The trouble with nature: ambivalence in the lives of urban Australian environmentalists’, Geoforum 39:3 (2008), pp. 1284-1295

– – – , ‘Stuck in a cul-de-sac? Suburban history and urban sustainability in Australia’, Urban Policy and Research 24:2 (2006), pp. 201-216

Griffiths, S., L. Vaughan, M. Haklay and C.E. Jones, ‘The Sustainable Suburban High Street: a Review of Themes and Approaches’, Geography Compass 2:4 (2008), pp. 1155-1188

Gupta, Rajat and Matt Greg, ‘Adapting UK Suburban Neighbourhoods and Dwellings for a Changing Climate’, Advances in Building Energy Research 5:1 (2011), pp. 81-108

Kirkman, R., ‘Reasons to Dwell on (if Not Necessarily in) the Suburbs’, Environmental Ethics 26:1 (2004), pp. 77-95

Williams, Katie, Jennifer L. R. Joynt, Catherine Payne, Diane Hopkins and Ian Smith, ‘The Conditions for, and Challenges of, Adapting England’s Suburbs for Climate Change’, Building and Environment 55 (2012), pp. 131-140

Transport

Cunningham, Gail, ‘London Commuting: Suburb and City, the Quotidian Frontier’ in Gail Cunningham and Stephen Barber (Eds), London Eyes: Reflections in Text and Image (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007) pp. 7-25

Marshall, Alex, How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken (Austin TX: University of Texas Press, 2000)

Special Issues

International Journal of Cultural Studies, special issue ‘Creative

Suburbia’ 15:3 (May 2012)

Journal of Urban History, special issue on Post-war Suburban Diversity in the U.S, edited by Matt Lassiter and Christopher Niedt, 39:1 (January 2013) http://juh.sagepub.com/content/39/1.toc

M/C Journal, special issue ‘Suburbia’, edited by Angela Lin Huang, Emma Felton and Christy Collis, 14:4 (August 2011)

Western American Literature, special issue ‘Western Suburbia’, edited by Neil Campbell, 46.3 (Fall 2011)

Periodicals

Harper’s Magazine (recent and historical archive of C19th and C20th articles) http://www.harpers.org

The New Yorker (recent and historical archive of C20th articles) http://www.newyorker.com