LEADER 03316nam 2200697 450 001 9910458726203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-997368-7 010 $a0-19-997367-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001313776 035 $a(EBL)1707880 035 $a(OCoLC)923708918 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001225972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12454672 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001225972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11270283 035 $a(PQKB)11505131 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1707880 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5824807 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1707880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10879407 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL617092 035 $a(OCoLC)882264867 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001313776 100 $a20140615h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmericans against the city $eanti-urbanism in the twentieth century /$fSteven Conn 210 1$aNew York :$cOxford University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-997366-0 311 $a1-306-85841-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aNotes Bibliography; Index 330 $aIt 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... 606 $aUrban renewal$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aUrbanization$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aDecentralization in government$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aUrbanization 606 $aDecentralization in government$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aUrban renewal$xHistory. 615 0$aUrbanization$xHistory. 615 0$aDecentralization in government$xHistory. 615 0$aUrbanization. 615 0$aDecentralization in government 676 $a307.3/4160973 700 $aConn$b Steven$0928703 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458726203321 996 $aAmericans against the city$92119118 997 $aUNINA