Bourgeois UtopiasA noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles. |
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Angeles apartment houses architecture aristocratic automobile boulevards bourgeois bourgeois utopia bourgeoisie builders building built central city Chestnut Hill Clapham Clapham Common classic Club cottage countryside created crowded culture Daniel Defoe decentralized defined district domestic downtown economic eighteenth century elite England English environment Evangelical factory zone Frederick Law Olmsted freeway garden growth Haussmann history of suburbia Ibid industrial city inevitably J. C. Loudon John John Nash land landscape living Llewellyn Park Los Angeles Manchester mass transit massive merchants middle class miles mortgage Nash nature neighborhood nineteenth century Olmsted's outskirts Palladian Paris Park Village periphery Philadelphia picturesque railroad suburb region residence residential Riverside row house rural single family house social space speculative streetcar streets structure suburban house suburbia techno-city technoburb town townhouses traditional University Press urban core urban form utopia Victoria Park Victorian Villa Rotonda Wilberforce William Wilberforce women York