Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 25-32. Jackson highlights his comments about Brooklyn as "The First Commuter Suburb." He notes the first ferry service between Brooklyn and Manhattan occurred in 1814. But Brooklyn did not receive city status from the legislature or have sufficient cohesion to elect its first mayor until 1834. In 1835 Brooklyn had only three thousand residents. Was it a suburb because of commutation, political maturation, or a critical mass of residents?
2.
Herbert Gans, The Levittowners (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982 [1962]).
3.
John Stilgoe, Borderland (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988).
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Margaret Marsh, Suburban Lives (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1990).
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Nicholas D. Bloom, Suburban Alchemy (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001).
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Robert Putman, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
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Richard Harris, Unplanned Suburbs (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
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Paul H. Mattingly, Culture and Politics in a New York Metropolitan Community (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001); Becky Nicholaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 2002); Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African-American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
