TY - JOUR
AU - Teaford, Jon C.
AB - Book Reviews 1539 signs with pictures of missing loved ones; in scape, Hayden proceeds to an examination of time, these became votives, composed of the seven historic patterns of suburban devel- signs, keepsakes, and flowers. Auto accidents opment, beginning with the borderlands and and gang shootings elicit the same response— picturesque enclaves of the nineteenth cen- a seizure of public, sometimes commercial, tury. She then moves on to the streetcar sub- space for private expressions of outrage and urbs of the late nineteenth and early twentieth grief. Such displays aim to create a dialogue centuries and the mail-order and self-built between the victim and the broader commu- suburbs of 1910 –1940. She concludes her ad- nity—to say something, to deliver a message. mirable historical survey with discussions of But all signs turn the street into a text, and the tract-house subdivisions, edge cities, and Jakle and Sculle have provided a useful glos- rural fringe sprawl of the second half of the sary to aid in the translation. twentieth century. In the book’s final section, Hayden examines the suburban future, con- Karal Ann Marling sidering the new urbanism approach as well as University of Minnesota high-tech housing proposals. She places 
TI - Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000. By Dolores Hayden. (New York: Pantheon, 2003. xiv, 318 pp. $26.00, ISBN 0-375-42128-9.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3660316
DA - 2005-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/building-suburbia-green-fields-and-urban-growth-1820-2000-by-dolores-yS5nU1aH2T
SP - 1539
EP - 1539
VL - 91
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -