[Urban-Media] More Suburban Texts

[Shekhar Krishnan]

Dear All:

There were several texts mentioned yesterday in the session which I have
digitised just today for our reference:

Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the
United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/jackson_crabgrass_frontier.pdf

John Archer, "Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1750-1850, and the Spaces
of Modernity" in Roger Silverstone, ed. Visions of Suburbia, New York:
Routledge, 1997, pp.26-54. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/archer_colonial_suburbs.pdf

Anthony D. King, "Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories
of the Bungalow" in Roger Silverstone, ed. Visions of Suburbia, New
York: Routledge, 1997, pp.55-85. 
http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/king_bungalow_suburb.pdf


Best, 


Shekhar

On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 23:44 -0400, Shekhar Krishnan wrote:
> Dear All:
> 
> We will meet for our next session on TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER in MIT Building
> E-51 Room 191 (the STS Reading Room) from 7.00-9.00 p.m. to discuss
> these texts on suburbanization in India, Europe and the U.S.:
> 
> Nikhil Rao, "An Indian Suburbia", chapter 1 from dissertation in the
> Department of History, University of Chicago, 2006ms
> http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/rao_indian_suburbia.pdf
> 
> Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New
> York: Basic Books, 1987.
> http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/fishman_bourgeois_utopias.pdf
> 
> The first text will be the basis a brief presentation and introduction
> to discussion by Nikhil Rao, who will drive down from the bourgeois
> utopia of Wellesley for the occassion. 
> 
> Also, I will order vegetarian meals from the Guru for everyone around --
> six meals for myself, Mike, Eric, Nikhil, Ilham, and Nithya. Please let
> me know if you are NOT coming so I can adjust the order. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> 
> Shekhar
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