The+Drive+in+Culture+of+Contemporary+America

From //The Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States// 1985
 * "The Drive-In Culture of Contemporary America"**

Jackson was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where he later went on to receive his bachelor's degree at the University of Memphis in 1961. A few years later, in 1966, he received his Ph.D. from University of Chicago. Jacksonn started off as an assistant professor at Columbia University, where he now is the Jacques Barzun Professor of History and Social Sciences. At one time he was also teh president of the Urban History Association and teh Organization of American Historians. During his time teaching at Columbia, he gained various distinctions in whcih he points out later in the future within his works. "Hackson has been called an urban pessimist because of his dark view of suburbanization. (LeGates/Stout, 59).
 * Jackson, Kenneth T. (1939 - )**

Focus is on the suburban culture and the definitive reasons for their social and structural changes in modern cities. Simply put, automobiles have changed out society by having these "three-car carages to drive-in churches." (LeGates/Stout, 59). Highly critical of the automobile due to the clogging and congestion of cities which caused traffic jams. "Suburban Revolution" critique of the social and cultural affects that the private automobile had on urban society.
 * Main Argument**

Post WWII changes; anti-cities; anti-sprawl
 * Other Ideas in the Article**

studied many of the factors of urban growth within the US gained many distinctions from his teaching at Columbia University
 * Sources**

Satirical view of automobilies. His dark, negative insight labels were comical.
 * Comments**

---Jason Rouleau