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Shaky Palaces : Homeownership and Social Mobility in Boston’S Surburbanization / Matthew Edel, Daniel Luria, Elliott D. Sclar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Columbia History of Urban LifePublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: 1 online resource (462 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780231927741
  • 9780231890397
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Part I. Up the Down Escalator: The Worker as Homeowner -- Introduction -- 1. Mobility and Entrapment in a Market Metropolis -- 2. The Uneven Development of Metropolitan Boston, 1630–1980 -- 3. Real Estate Values: Boston and Three Inner Suburbs -- 4. Real Estate Value Changes: Metropolitan Patterns, 1870–1970 -- 5. The Reality of Suburban Entrapment -- Part II. Lawns for the Pawns? The Homeowner as Worker -- Introduction -- 6. Blaming the Victim for Homeowner Discontent -- 7. Land Developers Channelers and Beneficiaries -- 8. Fiscal Balkanization and Suburban Devaluation -- 9. Origins of the Suburban Compromise -- 10. The Compromise Evaluated -- 11. Compromise Lost -- Appendix A: A Principal Components Analysis of Suburbanization -- Appendix B: Measuring Value Change in Twice-Sold Properties -- Appendix C: Assessment-to-Sales Ratios, 1900 and 1925 -- Appendix D: Measures of Social Class -- Appendix E: Government and Transportation -- Appendix F: Suburbanization and the Socialist Party Base -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Studies the process of neighborhood formation in Metropolitan Boston to better understand the economic and social forces that shape local politics. It discusses how suburbanization, fiscal balkanization, and an ideology of perpetual social mobility entrapped and to some extent controlled the people of Boston and other American cities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Part I. Up the Down Escalator: The Worker as Homeowner -- Introduction -- 1. Mobility and Entrapment in a Market Metropolis -- 2. The Uneven Development of Metropolitan Boston, 1630–1980 -- 3. Real Estate Values: Boston and Three Inner Suburbs -- 4. Real Estate Value Changes: Metropolitan Patterns, 1870–1970 -- 5. The Reality of Suburban Entrapment -- Part II. Lawns for the Pawns? The Homeowner as Worker -- Introduction -- 6. Blaming the Victim for Homeowner Discontent -- 7. Land Developers Channelers and Beneficiaries -- 8. Fiscal Balkanization and Suburban Devaluation -- 9. Origins of the Suburban Compromise -- 10. The Compromise Evaluated -- 11. Compromise Lost -- Appendix A: A Principal Components Analysis of Suburbanization -- Appendix B: Measuring Value Change in Twice-Sold Properties -- Appendix C: Assessment-to-Sales Ratios, 1900 and 1925 -- Appendix D: Measures of Social Class -- Appendix E: Government and Transportation -- Appendix F: Suburbanization and the Socialist Party Base -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Studies the process of neighborhood formation in Metropolitan Boston to better understand the economic and social forces that shape local politics. It discusses how suburbanization, fiscal balkanization, and an ideology of perpetual social mobility entrapped and to some extent controlled the people of Boston and other American cities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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