LEADER 03181nam 2200673 450 001 9910823917503321 005 20230803221448.0 010 $a0-19-936016-2 010 $a0-19-026330-X 010 $a0-19-936015-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001301431 035 $a(EBL)1653195 035 $a(OCoLC)880429418 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001196818 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12396090 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001196818 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11184540 035 $a(PQKB)10697776 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1653195 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1653195 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10870557 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL610158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001301431 100 $a20140523h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDead end $esuburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism /$fBenjamin Ross 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cOxford University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (257 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-19-936014-6 311 $a1-306-78907-9 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""16 Affordable Housing in an Ownership Society""""17 On Track toward Livable Cities""; ""Afterword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Index"" 330 $aMore 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 606 $aSuburbs$zUnited States 606 $aCities and towns$zUnited States$xGrowth 606 $aUrbanization$zUnited States 606 $aTraffic flow$zUnited States 606 $aLand use$zUnited States$xPlanning 615 0$aSuburbs 615 0$aCities and towns$xGrowth. 615 0$aUrbanization 615 0$aTraffic flow 615 0$aLand use$xPlanning. 676 $a307.740973 686 $aSOC026030$aSOC015000$aHIS036010$2bisacsh 700 $aRoss$b Benjamin$01639767 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823917503321 996 $aDead end$93997419 997 $aUNINA