03329nam 2200697 450 991080953390332120230803221546.00-19-997368-70-19-997367-9(CKB)2550000001313776(EBL)1707880(OCoLC)923708918(SSID)ssj0001225972(PQKBManifestationID)12454672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001225972(PQKBWorkID)11270283(PQKB)11505131(MiAaPQ)EBC1707880(MiAaPQ)EBC5824807(Au-PeEL)EBL1707880(CaPaEBR)ebr10879407(CaONFJC)MIL617092(OCoLC)882264867(EXLCZ)99255000000131377620140615h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAmericans against the city anti-urbanism in the twentieth century /Steven ConnNew York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (393 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-997366-0 1-306-85841-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 LifeNotes Bibliography; IndexIt 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...Urban renewalUnited StatesHistoryUrbanizationUnited StatesHistoryDecentralization in governmentUnited StatesHistoryUrbanizationDecentralization in governmentUnited StatesUrban renewalHistory.UrbanizationHistory.Decentralization in governmentHistory.Urbanization.Decentralization in government307.3/4160973HIS036060HIS054000bisacshConn Steven1602496MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809533903321Americans against the city3932176UNINA