Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn
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| Autore: |
Conn Steven
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| Titolo: |
Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (393 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.3/4160973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Urban renewal - United States - History |
| Urbanization - United States - History | |
| Decentralization in government - United States - History | |
| Urbanization | |
| Decentralization in government - United States | |
| Classificazione: | HIS036060HIS054000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Life |
| Notes Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | It 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... |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Americans against the city |
| ISBN: | 0-19-997368-7 |
| 0-19-997367-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791188003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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