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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809533903321

Autore

Conn Steven

Titolo

Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-997368-7

0-19-997367-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 p.)

Classificazione

HIS036060HIS054000

Disciplina

307.3/4160973

Soggetti

Urban renewal - United States - History

Urbanization - United States - History

Decentralization in government - United States - History

Urbanization

Decentralization in government - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 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...