Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / / Benjamin Ross
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| Autore: |
Ross Benjamin
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| Titolo: |
Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / / Benjamin Ross
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.740973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Suburbs - United States |
| Cities and towns - United States - Growth | |
| Urbanization - United States | |
| Traffic flow - United States | |
| Land use - United States - Planning | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dead end |
| ISBN: | 0-19-936016-2 |
| 0-19-026330-X | |
| 0-19-936015-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458321703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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