Brian Gettler on Nostr: Historians of postwar North America have written much on the rise of consumer society ...

Historians of postwar North America have written much on the rise of consumer society and suburbanization, about the upper-middle class retreat to inaccessible and sometimes literally gated communities. This move, combined with the physical separation things like large lots in car-centric, purely residential neighbourhoods imposed, hollowed out civic culture and insulated many from having to deal with "others," people who were different from them in any number of ways.

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