Adam Ward Rome

The Bulldozer in the Countryside

Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
Herausgeber: Crosby, Alfred W.; Worster, Donald

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800594
• ISBN-10: 0521800595
• Artikelnr.: 23581436

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex
2. From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling
3. Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe
4. Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape
5. Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains
6. Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development
7. Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation
Conclusion.