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UNINA9910458726203321 |
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Autore |
Conn Steven |
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Titolo |
Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-19-997368-7 |
0-19-997367-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Urban renewal - United States - History |
Urbanization - United States - History |
Decentralization in government - United States - History |
Urbanization |
Decentralization in government - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Americans Against the City; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Urban Paradox; 1 Anti-Urbanism: An American Tradition; 2 America's Urban Moment Arrives; 3 The Center Should Not Hold: Decentralizing the City in the 1920's and '30s; 4 New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal; 5 Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and the Folk; 6 The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7 The Triumph of the Decentralized City; 8 Small Town, New Town, Commune; 9 New Communities, New Urbanisms; Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life |
Notes Bibliography; Index |
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It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the ""anti-urban |
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impulse."" In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative... |
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UNISA996207920103316 |
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Experimental mycology |
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[Orlando?], : Academic Press, -©1995 |
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UNICAMPANIAVAN0059230 |
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Autore |
Chern, Shiing-Shen |
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Titolo |
Complex manifolds without potential theory : with an appendix on the geometry of characteristic classes / Shiing-shen Chern |
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New York, : Springer, 1995 |
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[2. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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32Qxx - Complex manifolds [MSC 2020] |
57R20 - Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology [MSC 2020] |
57R30 - Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory [MSC 2020] |
32H30 - Value distribution theory in higher dimensions [MSC 2020] |
32M15 - Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) [MSC 2020] |
53C15 - General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) [MSC 2020] |
32-XX - Several complex variables and analytic spaces [MSC 2020] |
14F08 - Derived categories of sheaves, dg categories, and related constructions in algebraic geometry [MSC 2020] |
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