Title: Scholarly, Perhaps Too Much So
Product review: This is a remarkably well-researched book. However, Professor Jackson makes incredible statements downgrading the importance of race in the making of the American suburbs. While he is undeniably correct that the impetus in American urban policy has been to spread out as far as technology will allow, he does not address to motive behind the no-holds-barred rush for the exits that has typified urban life since WWII. Any observer who credits his senses and not what he reads in a dusty census form in an archive knows that race was the reason for the postwar suburban boom. Professor Jackson or someone should update this book in light of Prof. Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis, which discredits Prof. Jackson's theories on race.
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