Dotting the suburban periphery, ubiquitous and unremarkable, suburban office parks and campuses were for many years the neglected stepchildren of suburban historiography. In the past decade, a literature has blossomed that considers a wide range of peri-urban places, revealing a diversity in suburban demographics and land use that belies the cultural stereotypes of suburbs as residential enclaves of the white middle class, as well as demonstrating the catalytic roles suburban places played in American politics, economics, and culture through the past century.
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