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==In popular culture== | ==In popular culture== | ||
Suburbs and suburban living have been the subject for a wide variety of films, books, television shows and songs. | Suburbs and suburban living have been the subject for a wide variety of films, books, television shows and songs. | ||
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British television series such as ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' and ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going [[Stir crazy (condition)|stir crazy]]. In contrast, U.S. shows such as ''[[Knots Landing]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' and ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]'' portray the suburbs as concealing darker secrets behind a façade of manicured lawns, friendly people, and beautifully kept houses. Films such as ''[[The 'Burbs]]'' and ''[[Disturbia (film)|Disturbia]]'' have brought this theme to the cinema. | British television series such as ''[[The Good Life (1975 TV series)|The Good Life]]'', ''[[Butterflies (TV series)|Butterflies]]'' and ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]'' have depicted suburbia as well-manicured but relentlessly boring, and its residents as either overly conforming or prone to going [[Stir crazy (condition)|stir crazy]]. In contrast, U.S. shows such as ''[[Knots Landing]]'', ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' and ''[[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]]'' portray the suburbs as concealing darker secrets behind a façade of manicured lawns, friendly people, and beautifully kept houses. Films such as ''[[The 'Burbs]]'' and ''[[Disturbia (film)|Disturbia]]'' have brought this theme to the cinema. | ||
== See also == | |||
{{columns-list|colwidth=15em| | |||
* [[Bibliography of suburbs]] | |||
* [[Criticism of suburbia]] | |||
* [[Boomburb]]s | |||
* [[Ethnoburb]] | |||
* [[Faubourg]] | |||
* [[Microdistrict]] | |||
* [[Developed environments]] | |||
* [[Human settlement|Settlement types]] | |||
* [[Rural–urban fringe]] | |||
* [[Slum]] | |||
* [[Subdivision (land)|Subdivision]] | |||
* [[List of satellite cities by population]] | |||
}} | |||
== Notes == | |||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
{{Reflist}} | |||
== Bibliography == | |||
{{Main list|Bibliography of suburbs}} | |||
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* Archer, John; Paul J.P. Sandul, and Katherine Solomonson (eds.), ''Making Suburbia: New Histories of Everyday America.'' Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. | |||
* Baxandall, Rosalyn and Elizabeth Ewen. ''Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened.'' New York: Basic Books, 2000. | |||
* Beauregard, Robert A. '' When America Became Suburban''. University of Minnesota Press, 2006. | |||
* {{cite book |last1=Boyd |first1=Robin |year=1960 |title=The Australian Ugliness |location=Melbourne |publisher=Penguin Books}} | |||
* Fishman, Robert. ''Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia''. Basic Books, 1987; in U.S. | |||
* {{cite book|last=Foxell|first=Clive|title=Chesham Shuttle: The Story of a Metropolitan Branch Line|edition=2nd|year=1996|publisher=Clive Foxell|isbn=0-9529184-0-4}} | |||
* Galinou, Mireille. ''Cottages and Villas: The Birth of the Garden Suburb'' (2011), in England | |||
* {{cite book|last=Green|first=Oliver|year=1987|title=The London Underground: An illustrated history|publisher=[[Ian Allan Publishing|Ian Allan]]|isbn=0-7110-1720-4}} | |||
* {{cite book|title=Metro-Land|edition=British Empire Exhibition 1924 reprinted|year=2004|isbn=1-904915-00-0|editor-first=Oliver|editor-last=Green|publisher=Southbank Publishing|url=http://www.southbankpublishing.com/9781904915003/introduction.php|access-date=22 April 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20080628202202/http://www.southbankpublishing.com/9781904915003/introduction.php|archive-date=28 June 2008|url-status=dead}} | |||
* Harris, Richard. ''Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900–1960'' (2004) | |||
* Hayden, Dolores. ''Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820–2000''. Vintage Books, 2003. | |||
* {{cite book|last=Horne|first=Mike|title=The Metropolitan Line|year=2003|publisher=Capital Transport|isbn=1-85414-275-5|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/metropolitanline00mike}} | |||
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* {{cite book|title=London's Metropolitan Railway|last=Jackson|first=Alan|year=1986|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=0-7153-8839-8}} | |||
* {{cite book|title=The English landscape in the twentieth century|last=Rowley|first=Trevor|year=2006|publisher=[[Continuum International Publishing Group|Hambledon Continuum]]|isbn=1-85285-388-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/englishlandscape0000rowl}} | |||
* {{cite book|last=Simpson|first=Bill|title=A History of the Metropolitan Railway. Volume 1: The Circle and Extended Lines to Rickmansworth.|publisher=Lamplight Publications|year=2003|isbn=1-899246-07-X}} | |||
* Stilgoe, John R. ''Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820–1939''. Yale University Press, 1989. | |||
* [[Jon C. Teaford|Teaford, Jon C.]] ''The American Suburb: The Basics''. Routledge, 2008. | |||
{{refend}} | |||
==External links== | |||
{{Wikiquote}} | |||
{{Commons}} | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100105102559/http://knol.google.com/k/steven-chong/a-future-vision-for-the-north-american/2e3144udfqrpg/5 A Future Vision for the North American Suburb] | |||
* [http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/suburban-studies Centre for Suburban Studies] | |||
* [http://www.hgs.org.uk/mystreet/index.html Images of a mature north London suburb illustrating a wide range of domestic architecture] | |||
* [http://www.endofsuburbia.com/ The end of suburbia] (documentary film) | |||
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[[Category:Types of populated places]] | |||
[[Category:Urban planning]] | |||
[[Category:Squatting]] | |||