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Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn



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Autore: Conn Steven Visualizza persona
Titolo: Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-19-997368-7
0-19-997367-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791188003321
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