SENNETT presents the second part of his projected trilogy. Here the abilities and skills of craftwork serve as an example of strengthened cooperation in modern societies. The essay discusses SENNETTs dialogic writing, his understanding of cooperation a…
The influence of urbanization, modernization and acculturation processes as causes for the development of body image concerns and eating disorders are documented in the literature. Women exposed to a Western idea of „beauty“ as skinny and thin may be m…
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This article argues that parents of the post–World War II baby boom chose where to live based primarily on the characteristics of individual neighborhoods, rather than by making sharp distinctions between urban and suburban space. The scholarshi…
This essay introduces a special section in the Journal of Urban History that explores the concept of suburban diversity in the United States during the post-World War II decades. Recent scholarship has emphasized themes of suburban heterogeneity durin…
The Shell Oil/Bulova Tower in Toronto was built as an „elaborate billboard“ but became a real public space because of its vital role in the Canadian National Exhibition. As a place marker in the literal and perceived landscapes of its site, it overcam…
After World War II, members of a small black middle class in southern cities such as Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans settled in newly built suburban-style subdivisions of single-family homes. While scholars have examined the design process and politi…
Asian Americans and Mexican Americans began to purchase homes in Los Angeles’s San Gabriel Valley in large numbers beginning in the 1950s and 1960s. They approached the task with a full awareness of the realities of structural racial discriminat…
Emergent public choice theory and innovations in suburban local government worked together to create and justify greater inequality among metropolitan places in postwar Los Angeles County. This article examines public choice theory and suburban home r…
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