1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003035779707536

Autore

Horn, Rudolf

Titolo

Hellenistische Bildwerke auf Samos / von Rudolf Horn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bonn : In kommission bei R. Habelt, 1972

Descrizione fisica

VIII, 240 p., 96, 27 p. di tav. : ill. ; 30 cm

Collana

Samos / Deutsches Archäologisches Institut ; 12

Altri autori (Enti)

Deutsches archäologisches Institut <Berlino>

Disciplina

939.14

Soggetti

Scavi archeologici - Grecia - Samo (Isola)

Grecia - Antichità

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

In testa al front.: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910823917503321

Autore

Ross Benjamin

Titolo

Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / / Benjamin Ross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-19-936016-2

0-19-026330-X

0-19-936015-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Classificazione

SOC026030SOC015000HIS036010

Disciplina

307.740973

Soggetti

Suburbs - United States

Cities and towns - United States - Growth

Urbanization - United States

Traffic flow - United States

Land use - United States - Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""

Sommario/riassunto

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



ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs