How long does it take to read Crabgrass Frontier?
The Suburbanization of America
Kenneth T. Jackson
Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth T. Jackson takes about 7 hours 16 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 7 hours 16 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 396 pages, about 108,900 words.
15 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 12 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 16 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Throughout history, the treatment and arrangement of shelter have revealed more about a particular people than have any other products of the creative arts. This book is about American housing. The physical organization of our neighborhoods, roads, yards, houses, and apartments sets up a living pattern that conditions our behavior. The physical pattern of housing development that Americans have chosen reflects a deliberate choice to emphasize separateness in our most dominant residential housing pattern: that of suburbia. Suburbia manifests fundamental American characteristics such as conspicuous consumption, a reliance upon the private automobile, upward mobility, the separation of the family into nuclear units, the widening division between work and leisure, and a tendency toward racial and economic exclusiveness. Several themes that recur in this book and are fundamental to understanding the suburban pattern of living are the importance of land developers, cheap housing lots, inexpensive construction methods, improved transportation technology, abundant energy, government subsidies, and racial stress. Finally, this book indicates that suburbanization has been as much a governmental as a natural process.
Subjects: History, Suburbs, Social conditions, Housing, Suburban life, Amerika
