Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened

by Elizabeth Ewen and Rosalyn Baxandall

Book Overview

In Picture Windows, Baxandall and Ewen shatter naive stereotypes of suburban life, replacing them with a clear and compelling historical analysis that situates the development of the suburbs in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465070450
• ISBN13: 9780465070459
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful history

Just had a chance to read "Picture Windows." Finally, a book about the suburbs that doesn't just reiterate one-dimensional cliches about conformity. Real people and real history, with amazing links to the history of the housing issue in the United States. I was especially interested by material on links between Joe McCarthy and the tract housing industry in the forties. Refreshing and illuminating.