This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare ex

“Thrilling and dangerous, with an ending that will leave you gasping!” —SUZANNE YOUNG, New York Times bestselling author of the series THE PROGRAM In a wo

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Explores the phenomenon of the mass movement of people away from town and city centres to live in new estates and towns built since World War II. Using sociolog