Pavements in the Garden

"This is the first book to evaluate the history of the suburbanization of southern New Jersey, adjacent to the City of Philadelphia, in both a local and regional context. And, with a broader perspective, this work provides not only new character for accepted historical constructs, but it places South Jersey within the national suburban experience.

Although it focuses on the local nature of the development, it draws comparisons to the similarities and differences of other locales across the country, and stresses the primary significance of new methods of transportation to suburban expansion.".

"Extensively documented from newspapers of the period and local public and private records, this work links together, in a regional and national context, South Jersey's ferry suburb of the Town of Camden, railroad suburb of Haddon Heights, and suburban city of Cherry Hill. It chronicles the arrival of the steamboat, locomotive, and automobile and the ongoing nineteenth- and twentieth-century enterprises that stimulated the growth and development of an area that is a vital part of the Delaware Valley.".

"Pavements in the Garden brings into focus the events of the past and the controversies of the present, and contributes a unique overview of the changing pattern of suburbanization in southern New Jersey that contributes to the national suburban model."--BOOK JACKET.