Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture

by Amy Kenyon

A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.

Dreaming Suburbia is a cultural and historical interpretation of the political economy of postwar American suburbanization. Questions of race, class, and gender are explored through novels, film, television and social criticism where suburbia features as a central theme. Although suburbanization had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814332285
• ISBN13: 9780814332283
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"