Cities and Suburbs, at Home and Abroad

Andrew Lees. Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. xi + 360 pp. Illus. M. Christine Boyer. Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style, 1850-1900. New York: Rizzoli, 1985. vi + 258 pp. Illus. Kenneth T. Jackson.. Crab grass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. xi +396 pp. To the occasional visitor from outer space, the changes over the past two centuries in the number, size, structure, and aspect of the great cities of this planet must be a subject for wonder and comment. But if he has troubled to read much in the literature on such phenomena, he will have had his patience abused more than his curiosity satisfied. Not the least of the evils of the modern city is the banality it has tended to elicit from those who have written about it

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