Urban Sociology, General & Miscellaneous Architecture, Urban Studies, Infrastructure Policies

Picture Windows

Name: Picture Windows
Author: Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall,Elizabeth Ewen
ISBN: 9780465070459

by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall, Elizabeth Ewen

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"Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens."-Vanity Fair

About the Author, Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall,Elizabeth Ewen

Rosalyn Baxandall is Professor and Chair of American Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. Elizabeth Ewen is Distinguished Teaching Professor of American Studies at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.

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When Baxandall and Ewen (both American studies, State U. of New York- Old Westbury) interviewed women in several Long Island communities about their real lives, they found that the stereotypes about suburbs have little to do with actual experience. Surmising from the interviews<-->as well as diaries, scrapbooks, and other archival sources for earlier in the century<-->they conclude that the suburbs have long been and still are centers of social and architectural experimentation where white, black, immigrant, gay, straight, old, young, married, divorced, and single people have struggled to improve their lives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)