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A 5 page book review of Fishman’s landmark 1987 urban studies’ text. No additional sources are used.
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Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia, a 1987 text that is often considered required reading in any urban studies curriculum. In his landmark text, Fishman considers the
concept of suburbia not simply from an urban perspective, but incisively examines it from an historical and socioeconomic point of view. He articulates his intentions quite clearly in his
Introduction, in which he observes, "Suburbia is more than a collection of residential buildings; it expresses values so deeply embedded in bourgeois culture that it might also be called the
bourgeois utopia. Yet this utopia was always at most a partial paradise, a refuge not only from threatening elements in the city but also from discordant elements in bourgeois society
itself. From its origins the suburban world of leisure, family life, and union with nature was based on the principle of exclusion" (4). In Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and
Fall of Suburbia, Fishman articulates the thesis that suburbia is not simply a modern construct that represents the effects of urban sprawl. It has a far more distinctive historical
and cultural significance. According to Fishman, "If suburbia is seen as a culture, then it may be represented as a distinctly Euro-American culture whose formation was not necessitated by
the Industrial Revolution or changing transportation technology, but rather by middle-class values" (9). The text evolves chronologically, and according to Professor Fishman, London must be regarded as the official
birthplace of the modern-day suburb. His exhaustive research reveals that successful London businessmen would often move their families to the periphery so that they could build country houses that
would enable their wives and children to prosper in a more natural environment. Fishman defines the first official suburb as the eighteenth-century Clapham Common, which surprisingly bears very little
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