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The literature is vast but for especially relevant examples see Lynn Spigel, Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001)
Robert Beuka, SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
David R. Coon, Look Closer: Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2013).
For a small sense of this very large body of work, see anthologies such as David Clarke, ed., The Cinematic City (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)
Mark Lamster, ed., Architecture and Film (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000)
Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, eds., Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001)
Mark Shiel, ed., Screening the City (London and New York: Verso, 2003)
Andrew Webber and Emma Wilson, eds., Cities in Transition: The Moving Image and the Modern Metropolis (London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2008).
Rob Lapsley, “Mainly in Cities and at Night: Some Notes on Cities and Film,” in The Cinematic City, ed. David B. Clarke (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 187.
Mark Shiel, “Cinema and the City in History and Theory,” in Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Studies in a Global Context, ed. Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 3–4.
I am thinking here, for example, of the so-called (and loosely formed) Los Angeles School of urbanism, which has frequently invoked culture in its postmodern theorization of the city. See for example Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage, 1992)
Edward W. Soja, Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places (Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996)
Michael J. Dear, The Postmodern Urban Condition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000)
Michael J. Dear and J. Dallas Dishman, eds., From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory (Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage, 2002).
Quoted in Jonathan Meades, Museum Without Walls (London: Unbound, 2012), 12.
Kenneth MacKinnon, Hollywood’s Small Towns: An Introduction to the American Small-Town Movie (Metuchen, NJ and London: Scarecrow Press, 1984), 18.
Darnell M. Hunt, “Representing ‘Los Angeles’: Media, Space, and Place,” in From Chicago to L.A.: Making Sense of Urban Theory, ed. Michael J. Dear and J. Dallas Dishman (Thousand Oaks, London and New Delhi: Sage, 2002), 321–342.
Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002)
Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier (Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1982), 10–12.
Ebenezer Howard, To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform (London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1898), 8.
For an extraordinarily thorough, heavily illustrated account, see Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove, Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City (New York: Monacelli Press, 2013).
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change (Cambridge and Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 66.
Nigel Taylor, Urban Planning Theory since 1945 (London: Sage, 1998)
This shift is discussed in Thomas J. Campanella, “Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning,” in Reconsidering Jane Jacobs, ed. Max Page and Timothy Mennel (Chicago and Washington, DC: American Planners Association/Planners Press, 2011), 141–160.
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Rowley, S. (2015). Introduction Visions of Community. In: Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493286_1
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