Crabgrass Frontier

Crabgrass Frontier:
The Suburbanization of the United States

Author	Kenneth T. Jackson
Language	English
Genre	History, Urban Planning
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1985
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
ISBN	0-19-503610-7 (Hard Cover) ISBN 0-19-504983-7 (Paperback)
Dewey Decimal	307.7/4 0973
LC Class	HT384 .U5 J33 1985

Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States^[1] is a book written by historian Kenneth T. Jackson and published in 1985. Extensively researched and referenced, the book takes into account factors that promoted the suburbanization of the United States, such as the availability of cheap land, construction methods, and transportation, as well as federal subsidies for highways and suburban housing.