Amanda I. Seligman , "The New Suburban History," Journal of Planning History3 ( 2004): 312-23; and Matthew D. Lassiter , "The New Suburban History II: Political Culture and Metropolitan Space,"Journal of Planning History4 (2005): 75-87. The third essay, by Mary Corbin Sies, is forthcoming.
3.
See the discussion titled "Teaching: New Suburban History Course Reflections" running on the H-Urban from December 18, 2003, to January 1, 2004. The H-Urban archives of discussions are available at http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=lm&list=H-Urban. Note that I did not originate the term metropolitan history. See Kenneth Fox, Metropolitan America: Urban Life and Urban Policy in the United States 1940-1980 (London, 1985). On December 22, 2003, in the H-Urban discussion of "metropolitan history," James Wunsch cited Roderick McKenzie , The Metropolitan Community ( New York, 1933) and Report on the Social Statistics of the Cities (1886) as key works in developing the concept of metropolis.
4.
Richard Harris, Unplanned Suburbs: Toronto's American Tragedy, 1900 to 1950 ( Baltimore, 1996).
5.
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago, 2002) and Andrew Wiese, Places of their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Chicago, 2004).
6.
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States ( New York, 1985).
7.
Harris, Unplanned Suburbs , 200.
8.
In fact, Lustron houses have become an object of historic preservation. See, for example, http://home.earthlink.net/~lustronlocator/andhttp://members.tripod.com/~Strandlund/index-5.html, both accessed March 6, 2006.
9.
Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, chap. 11.
10.
This claim should by no means be taken as a criticism of the excellent scholarship that I have previously labeled as exemplifying the trend of the "new suburban history." Instead, my suggestion is that readers of these works ought to attend to what they authors have to say about the dynamics of change within the regions under study.
