03181nam 2200673 450 991079090520332120230803221448.00-19-936016-20-19-026330-X0-19-936015-4(CKB)2550000001301431(EBL)1653195(OCoLC)880429418(SSID)ssj0001196818(PQKBManifestationID)12396090(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196818(PQKBWorkID)11184540(PQKB)10697776(MiAaPQ)EBC1653195(Au-PeEL)EBL1653195(CaPaEBR)ebr10870557(CaONFJC)MIL610158(EXLCZ)99255000000130143120140523h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDead end suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism /Benjamin RossNew York, New York :Oxford University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (257 p.)Includes index.0-19-936014-6 1-306-78907-9 ""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""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 suburbsSuburbsUnited StatesCities and townsUnited StatesGrowthUrbanizationUnited StatesTraffic flowUnited StatesLand useUnited StatesPlanningSuburbsCities and townsGrowth.UrbanizationTraffic flowLand usePlanning.307.740973SOC026030SOC015000HIS036010bisacshRoss Benjamin1518308MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790905203321Dead end3790600UNINA01784nam 2200541 450 991082645120332120230803195932.01-86922-501-5(CKB)2670000000572146(SSID)ssj0001561084(PQKBManifestationID)16199929(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001561084(PQKBWorkID)14829603(PQKB)11734060(MiAaPQ)EBC3544788(Au-PeEL)EBL3544788(CaPaEBR)ebr11082484(CaONFJC)MIL653003(OCoLC)922475241(EXLCZ)99267000000057214620150804d2014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAccelerated learning for breakthrough results whole brain, person and systems approach to accelerate learning, engagement, change and growth /by Debbie Craig and Kerryn KohlRandburg, Republic of South Africa :Knowres Publishing,2014.1 online resource (402 pages) color illustrationsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-86922-500-7 1-322-21723-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Educational accelerationOrganizational learningEmployeesTraining ofEducational acceleration.Organizational learning.EmployeesTraining of.Craig Debbie1657743Kohl KerrynMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826451203321Accelerated learning for breakthrough results4011319UNINA