"frontier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- As he noted in his history of the suburbs, "Crabgrass Frontier," communities such as Riverdale were dependent on new transportation systems, which made possible a commute to a city's business centers.
- The equally worthy suburban counterpart has the somewhat less grand title, "Crabgrass Frontier."
- Professor Jackson, the author of "Crabgrass Frontier" and a Columbia University historian, argued that the sense of community that suburban revisionists are reporting could be a fragile one.
- For some reason it often takes books that are somewhat afield or specialized (Kenneth Jackson's "Crabgrass Frontier" comes to mind) to chart the field of architecture.
- He is the author of "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States" (Oxford University Press).
- The main overview is Kenneth T. Jackson's Crabgrass Frontier (1987).
- As Kenneth T. Jackson points out in his book Crabgrass Frontier, "the first really significant defeat for the consolidation movement came when Brookline spurned Boston."
- "Crabgrass Frontier," its fuse ticking away in the obscurity of scholarly exchange, is a mine set under some of the more important load-bearing pillars of the current social order.
- Kenneth T. Jackson, a professor of history at Columbia and author of "Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States," agreed.
- His major work, "Crabgrass Frontier" (Oxford, 1985), a largely critical study of suburbia, won the Bancroft Prize.
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