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Summary:

Protecting Suburban America explores the dynamics and conflicts inherent in preserving historic twentieth-century suburban landscapes in America.Bridging architecture, anthropology, planning, and urban studies, its unique approach combines a study of historic preservation with multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, to shed fascinating light on issues of heritage, preservation, gentrification, class, ethnicity, and contested values in suburbia. These are subjects which reach far beyond the setting of the book's focus in California to touch on topical debates in cities, suburbia, and gentrifying neighborhoods worldwide.At the heart of the book is a detailed comparative ethnography of preservation practices and the changing landscapes of five suburban cities, where affluent homeowners have begun to restore their early twentieth-century houses in neighborhoods once suffering from decline. Not every neighbor, however, shares the same aesthetic values, and complex dynamics can arise. The study compares experiences in five different cities, and in different long-term, immigrant, and gentrifying populations. Themes revealed include homeowner restoration practices, aesthetic contestations, local advocacy, and public policy, alongside an exploration of the social construction of the historic restoration process, and how homeowners construct historical' meaning in their homes and neighbourhoods. These are themes with consequences for national and global settings - of interest wherever contested preservation aesthetics and regulations are reshaping older residential neighbourhoods and their social dynamics.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Framing Preservation
• 2. Discovering Material Agency: Making the Preservation Homeowner
• 3. Restoration Strategies: Imagining the Past, and Reconstructing Historic Meaning
• 4. Historic Preservation as Cosmology: Municipal Regulations and City Dynamics
• 5. Local Level Preservation and Exclusion: Traditional Elites
• 6. The Gentry Move in: Education, Reform, and Advocacy
• 7. Immigrant Challenges: Communicating Preservation Values Across the Cultural Divide in Alhambra
• 8. Toward an Anthropology of the Protected Suburb.

Author/Creator:

Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Protecting suburban America: gentrification, advocacy and the historic imaginary [by Lawrence-Zúñiga, D.]

Subjects:

Suburban homes — Conservation and restoration — Social aspects — United States

Historic preservation — Social aspects — United States

Architecture — Human factors — United States

Sociology, Urban — United States

Suburban homes — Conservation and restoration

Suburban homes

Social aspects

Historic preservation — Social aspects

Historic preservation

Architecture — Human factors

Architecture

Sociology, Urban

United States

General Notes:

"First published 2016 by Bloomsbury Academic."
Includes bibliographical references.
Denise Lawrence-Zuniga is Professor of Architecture and a sociocultural anthropologist at the College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

NA7571 .L397 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781000183337 (electronic bk.)
1000183335 (electronic bk.)
9781003086468 (electronic bk.)
1003086462 (electronic bk.)
9781000189964 (electronic bk., EPUB)
1000189961 (electronic bk., EPUB)
9781000186840 (electronic bk., Mobipocket)
1000186849 (electronic bk., Mobipocket)

OCLC Numbers:

1159403714