| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Ed. by Robert Lewis. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004. x, 294 pp. Cloth, $68.50, ISBN 1-59213-085-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-59213086-0.)
It has become evident that the history of North American suburbs is exceedingly complex. Al though the word suburb means literally under the city, or, more loosely, subordinate to the city, many suburbs have become part of the city proper or are not actually dependent on a nearby city for their success. And, contrary to long-held beliefs, there are no uniform patterns of suburban emergence and growth during certain characteristic time periods. Also false is the assumption that industrial and residential suburbs are somehow mutually exclusive. In Manufacturing Suburbs, edited by Robert Lewis, eleven authors have done a pioneering and impressive job of sorting out some of the many complexities of industrial suburbanization in the United States and Canada during the century from 1850 to 1950.	1
In his introductory chapter, Lewis lists and briefly discusses several common aspects of industrial suburbs. These include the connections between urban building rhythms and the development of industrial suburbs, the consequences of an area's social geography, the influence of middle- and upper-class residential patterns, the production strategies of given industries, the need for new factory sites, and the ability of property owners and entrepreneurs to shape land into a manageable commodity.	. . .

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