The bulldozer in the countryside: suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism
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1. Verfasser: Rome, Adam Ward (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Schriftenreihe:Studies in environment and history
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex -- From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling -- Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe -- Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape -- Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains -- Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development -- Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation
The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. This is the first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of the varied efforts to address the environmental consequences of suburban growth from 1945 to 1970
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)
ISBN:9781107741744
1107741742
9780511816703
0511816707
0521800595
9780521800594
0521804906
9780521804905

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