The suburban weekend: Perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream

Visions of Suburbia

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 108-131

  Cross, Gary ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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