Suburban Dreams: Imagining and Building the Good Life

by Greg Dickinson

Book Overview

2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award finalist

Explores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the "good life"

Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817360433
• ISBN13: 9780817360436
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"