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Ross Benjamin |
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Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / / Benjamin Ross |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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0-19-936016-2 |
0-19-026330-X |
0-19-936015-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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SOC026030SOC015000HIS036010 |
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Soggetti |
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Suburbs - United States |
Cities and towns - United States - Growth |
Urbanization - United States |
Traffic flow - United States |
Land use - United States - Planning |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Dead End""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Strange Birth of Suburbia""; ""2 Planners and Embalmers""; ""3 Government-Sponsored Sprawl""; ""4 Ticky-Tacky Boxes""; ""5 Jane Jacobs versus the Planners""; ""6 Saving the City""; ""7 The Age of the Nimby""; ""8 Spreading like Cancer""; ""9 The War of Greed against Snobbery""; ""10 A New Thirst for City Life""; ""11 Backlash from the Right""; ""12 The Language of Land Use""; ""13 Breaking New Ground""; ""14 The Politics of Smart Growth""; ""15 Democratic Urbanism"" |
""16 Affordable Housing in an Ownership Society""""17 On Track toward Livable Cities""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" |
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More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, ""Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over."" Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the |
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