Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay in

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes

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This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own