'A fascinating collection of essays on the production, consumption and representation of suburbia.' - The Year's Work 96

• Introduction; 1: Colonial suburbs in south asia, 1 700–1 850, and the spaces of modernity; 2: Excavating the multicultural suburb: Hidden histories of the bungalow; 3: A Stake in the country: Women's experiences of suburban development; 4: The suburban weekend: Perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream; 5: Tupperware: Suburbia, sociality and mass consumption; 6: Deep suburban irony: The perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York; 7: The sexualization of suburbia: The diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere; 8: From theatre to space ship: Metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America; 9: Negotiating the gnome zone: Versions of suburbia in British popular culture; 10: The suburban sensibility in british rock and pop; 11: The worst of all possible worlds?

'A fascinating collection of essays on the production, consumption and representation of suburbia.' - The Year's Work 96

• Introduction; 1: Colonial suburbs in south asia, 1 700–1 850, and the spaces of modernity; 2: Excavating the multicultural suburb: Hidden histories of the bungalow; 3: A Stake in the country: Women's experiences of suburban development; 4: The suburban weekend: Perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream; 5: Tupperware: Suburbia, sociality and mass consumption; 6: Deep suburban irony: The perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York; 7: The sexualization of suburbia: The diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere; 8: From theatre to space ship: Metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America; 9: Negotiating the gnome zone: Versions of suburbia in British popular culture; 10: The suburban sensibility in british rock and pop; 11: The worst of all possible worlds?

'A fascinating collection of essays on the production, consumption and representation of suburbia.' - The Year's Work 96

• Introduction; 1: Colonial suburbs in south asia, 1 700–1 850, and the spaces of modernity; 2: Excavating the multicultural suburb: Hidden histories of the bungalow; 3: A Stake in the country: Women's experiences of suburban development; 4: The suburban weekend: Perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream; 5: Tupperware: Suburbia, sociality and mass consumption; 6: Deep suburban irony: The perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York; 7: The sexualization of suburbia: The diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere; 8: From theatre to space ship: Metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America; 9: Negotiating the gnome zone: Versions of suburbia in British popular culture; 10: The suburban sensibility in british rock and pop; 11: The worst of all possible worlds?