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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Revised) Barbara Harshav Many of us placed ourThis first full scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social history with economic and architectural analysis, and taking into account such factors as the availability of cheap land, inexpensive building methods, and rapid transportation, Kenneth Jackson chronicles the