Books
Bruegmann, Robert. Sprawl: A Compact History. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Duany, Andres, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. 10th Anniversary Edition. New York, New York: North Point Press, 2010. Originally published in 2000.
Eichler, Ned P. The Merchant Builders. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1982.
Findlay, John M. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940. Berkeley, California: The University of California Press, 1992.
Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. New York, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1987.
Gallagher, Leigh. The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving. New York, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2013.
Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York, New York: Anchor Books, 1991.
Hayden, Dolores. Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000. New York, New York: Vintage Books, 2003.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford, England, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kling, Rob, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster, eds. Postsuburban California: The Transformation of Orange County Since World War II. Berkeley, California: The University of California Press, 1991.
Nicolaides, Becky M., and Andrew Wiese, eds. The Suburb Reader. London, England, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2006.
Rybczynski, Witold. Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities. New York, New York: Scribner, 2010.
Starr, Kevin. Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963. Oxford, England, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Teaford, Jon C. The American Suburb: The Basics. London, England, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2007.
—. The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America. New York, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Trolander, Judith Ann. From Sun Cities to The Villages: A History of Active Adult, Age-Restricted Communities. Gainesville, Florida: The University Press of Florida, 2011.
Scholarly Journal Articles
Bennett, Robert. “Tract Homes on the Range: The Suburbanization of the American West.” Western American Literature, Vol. 46, No. 3 (Fall 2011), 281-301. University of Nebraska Press.
Hoff, Derek S. “The Original Housing Crisis: Suburbanization, Segregation, and the State in Postwar America.” Reviews in American History, Vol. 36, No. 2 (June 2008), 259-269. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Jindrich, Jason. “Suburbs in the City: Reassessing the Location of Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Suburbs.” Social Science History, Vol. 36, No. 2. (Summer 2012), 147-167. Duke University Press.
Logan, John R., and Mark Schneider. “Racial Segregation and Racial Change in American Suburbs, 1970-1980.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 89, No. 4, January 1984, 874-888. The University of Chicago Press.
Marsh, Margaret. “Historians and the Suburbs.” OAH Magazine of History, Vol. 5, No. 2, Urban History. Fall 1990, 43-49. Organization of American Historians.
—. “(Ms) Reading the Suburbs.” American Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1 (March 1994), 40-48. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Marshall, Harvey. “Black and White Upper-Middle-Class Suburban Selection: A Causal Analysis.” The Pacific Sociological Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1982), 27-57.
Massey, Douglas S., and Nancy A. Denton. Suburbanization and Segregation in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 94, No. 3 (November 1988), 592-626. The University of Chicago Press.
Miller, Laura J. “Family Togetherness and the Suburban Ideal.” Sociological Forum, Vol. 10, No. 3. September 1995, 393-418. Springer.
O’Mara, Margaret Pugh. “Suburbia Reconsidered: Race, Politics, and Property in the Twentieth Century.” Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, No. 1. Fall 2005, 229-243. Oxford University Press.
Piggot, William Benjamin. “Globalization from the Bottom Up: Irvine, California, and the Birth of Suburban Cosmopolitanism.” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 81, No. 1. (February 2012), 60-91. University of California Press.
Schaffer, Daniel. “After the Suburbs.” 1991. Built Environment, Vol. 17, No. 3/4, Post-Suburban America (1991), 242-256. Alexandrine Press.
Siembieda, William J. “Suburbanization of Ethnics of Color.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 422, The Suburban Seventies (November 1975), 118-128. Sage Publications.
Stahura, John M. “Suburban Development, Black Suburbanization and the Civil Rights Movement Since World War II.” American Sociological Review, Vol. 51, No. 1 (February 1986), 131-144. American Sociological Association.
Master’s Theses
Mercurio, Richard A. “Landscape Taste in Suburbia: A Comparison of Planned and Non-Conformist Communities.” Master’s thesis, San Diego State University, 1986.