Saturday, October 5, 2024
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
1301 Chelten Way, South Pasadena
Tickets: $10

SPPF is proud to present a talk from historian Becky Nicolaides based on her book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945. Becky is well known for her work in urban history, and her work in this book touches all of us who grew up locally in the second half of the 20^th century, as well as those who, today, are trying to understand the particular suburban demographics of older, close-in communities such as South Pasadena

Raised in South Pasadena, Becky Nicolaides is a historian and consultant specializing in the history of suburbs, metro areas, and Los Angeles. She is the author of three books, including The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024), and her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.

In The New Suburbia, Becky investigates the transformation of America’s suburbs. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America’s cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. She will discuss this aspect and more of her research in what is sure to be a revealing and fascinating talk.