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Cupcake Land: Requiem for the Midwest in the Key of Vanilla
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| Title | Cupcake Land: Requiem for the Midwest in the Key of Vanilla |
| Abstract | Essay by local author Richard Rhodes comparing Kansas City to east and west coast cities, calling its suburbs "Cupcake Land," by virtue of their sweet, clean, and pleasant but vacuous nature. Discussion on the influences of growing (especially post-World War II) suburbanization on the formerly urban character of the city and metro area in aspects such as lack of walking, distressed race relations and segregation of blacks from the Country Club Plaza and parts of Johnson County, Kansas, strict consciousness of social classes, and general conformity in behavior and appearance due to "a deep insecurity about the consequences of individual expression," etc. |
| Author | Richard Rhodes
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| Date | November//1987 |
| Source | Harper's Magazine |
| Location | Vertical File: Kansas City-- Description--1980s |
| Volume | 275 |
| Number | 1650 |
| Page | 51-57 |
| Local Subject | Kansas City, Missouri--Description--1980s
Culture
Suburbs
Rhodes, Richard
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 97540 |
| CONTENTdm number | 12115 |
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