| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Going Shopping: Consumer Choices and Community Consequences. By Ann Satterthwaite. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. 386 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-300-08421-8.)

"Shopping is a public concern—and our concern." So Ann Satterthwaite repeats throughout this polemic against rampant consumption and its destructive impact on America's cities and sprawling suburbs. The we of her statement refers to America's consumer citizens, whom Satterthwaite, an urban planner by trade, positions squarely in her crosshairs. By public, Satterthwaite means of concern to the government and therefore potentially amenable to urban planning solutions—if only planners, citizens, and politicians would stand up to the private sector's utter dominance over real estate development practices and policies. . . .

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