Suburbia and suburban life

Essay Topic: Suburbia, and suburban life, have often been associated with the utopian notion of ?the Australian (/American) Dream?. Has the ideal vision of suburbia been achieved? What are the realities of suburbanisation? Discuss with reference to at least one city, and its metropolitan area.

This assessment task is an annotated bibliography. To most effectively complete this task, you must consider your major essay question. Focusing on this, you will select and annotate a set of relevant texts. This assessment task should not exceed 1,000 words in total.

The assignment task is to identify four key terms, and locate an academic text relevant to each chosen term, culminating in the analysis of four texts. You may utilise books, edited books, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Only one of these texts may be a core reading. (Which I have attached a document named ?Core Reading?) Your key terms should be stated prior to the introduction, along with your chosen referencing style. ?An introduction and conclusion should frame your annotated paragraphs, which introduce your topic, and briefly outline your findings. For each text, include an accurate bibliographic citation, followed by an analysis of approximately 200 words, for a total of four texts overall. Only one core reading may be discussed. Your citation list is not included in the word count. ?