Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson

Jackson edit data Combine Editions Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States - Ebook written by Kenneth T. The more things change, the more they remain the same. Jackson (Author of Crabgrass Frontier) Discover new books on Goodreads See if your friends have read any of Kenneth T. Before we started worrying about carbon dioxide, there was a concern about fossil fuels, but it concerned not carbon dioxide, but the fact that they were finite, whereas things that grow, if properly handled, were not.

But it is striking to me that what was said about the ‘energy crisis’ then, and what is said about ‘climate change’ now, are strikingly similar. Fracking has postponed that, but in the long run we will be, in my opinion, finding alternatives. But Jackson could see the ultimate finitude of fossil fuels, and forecast that the suburban order would start to fade away because of it. 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 phenomenal growth of the American suburb from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. By 1985 the abolition of price controls had made energy and at least gasoline quite abundant, and was actually pushing people to flee Houston, if you can imagine such a thing. Jackson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 183 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.

Jackson writes in the shadow of the energy crisis of the 1970s, which was simultaneous with the Great Stagflation. Jackson Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States 1st Edition, Kindle Edition by Kenneth T.

Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson