This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighbourhood that is on the rise throughout the US, the bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "boburb." It provides a clear, historical account of how these spaces arose, exploring the influence of transportation systems is shaping residential and commercial spaces.
This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighbourhood that is on the rise throughout the US, the bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "boburb." It provides a clear, historical account of how these spaces arose, exploring the influence of transportation systems is shaping residential and commercial spaces.
William J. Weston is Van Winkle Professor of Sociology at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
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Introduction: walking to the coffeehouse Part I: The Louisville Highlands: an exemplary boburb 1. Louisville: the big picture 2. Boburbia: the vibrant mixed-use community 3. How did the Highlands happen? From suburbia to bohemia to boburbia 4. Why do you live in the Highlands? Part II: Bohemia and suburbia in Louisville 5. The Highlands and "the Glens": the suburban alternatives 6. Germantown and Clifton: Bohemia the old-fashioned way 7. NuLu and Portland: Bohemia on steroids Part III: Varieties of boburbs 8. Crescent Hill: the bourgeois boburb 9. Norton Commons: the boburb in the fields 10. Russell and Shawnee: imagining a multiracial boburb of the future 11. Boburbs elsewhere Part IV: Between bohemia and suburbia 12. A measured appreciation of the boburb
Introduction: walking to the coffeehouse Part I: The Louisville Highlands: an exemplary boburb 1. Louisville: the big picture 2. Boburbia: the vibrant mixed-use community 3. How did the Highlands happen? From suburbia to bohemia to boburbia 4. Why do you live in the Highlands? Part II: Bohemia and suburbia in Louisville 5. The Highlands and "the Glens": the suburban alternatives 6. Germantown and Clifton: Bohemia the old-fashioned way 7. NuLu and Portland: Bohemia on steroids Part III: Varieties of boburbs 8. Crescent Hill: the bourgeois boburb 9. Norton Commons: the boburb in the fields 10. Russell and Shawnee: imagining a multiracial boburb of the future 11. Boburbs elsewhere Part IV: Between bohemia and suburbia 12. A measured appreciation of the boburb
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