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Animal City: The Domestication of America / Andrew A. Robichaud
Review Date: 13 November 2020
Late June 2020 was an extraordinary time to be reading Animal City. COVID-19, a zoonotic disease, had already killed around 130,000 people in the United States, with urban areas suffering the highest death rates. In New York City alone, 30,000 people had died.
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan / Susan C. Townsend, Simon Gunn
Review Date: 19 June 2020
In Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan, Simon Gunn and Susan Townsend have written the equivalent of three books.
Suburban Century: Social Change and Urban Growth in England and the USA / Mark Clapson
Review Date: 01 January 2004
For a very long time, writers have sneered at the suburbs. They have looked down on suburbanites for being materialistic, unimaginative, and boring. They have complained about the social and physical monotony of the suburban scene while deploring its individualism and lack of community.