Bulldozer in the Countryside - Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism

Klappentext The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. The Bulldozer in the Countryside was the first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of the varied efforts to address the environmental consequences of suburban growth from 1945 to 1970. For scholars and students of American history, the book offers a compelling insight into two of the great stories of modern times - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. The book also offers a valuable historical perspective for participants in contemporary debates about the alternatives to sprawl. Zusammenfassung This was the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers an account of two of the most important historical events since 1945 - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Rome, Adam (State University of New York Rome, Adam Ward Rome, Rome Adam
• Assisted by: Alfred W. Crosby (Editor), Donald Worster (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2001
• EAN: 9780521800594
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80059-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Environment & Histo; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / General, Urban & municipal planning, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmentalist thought and ideology, C 1945 To C 1960, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning