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Dieterlen's strategic discussions of contrasting non-Hispanic white and Mexican American landscapes, such as in the case of the style and use of domestic front yards, are powerful explanatory devices in the book. The following three chapters, chapters 4 through 6, present the three main types of communities the study identified and analyzed: dynamic new communities, rusting established communities, and perennial mixed communities. [Extracted from the article]