"Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock...

The myth of suburbia, by B. M. Berger.--The process of suburban development, by S. D. Clark.--Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: a re-evaluation of definitions, by H. J. Gans.--The big change in suburbia, by F. L. Allen.--The suburban boom, by B. J. Wattenberg with R. M....