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

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

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• Authors: Adam Rome, Adam (State University of New York Rome, Adam Ward Rome, Rome Adam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2001
• EAN: 9780521804905
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80490-5
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Environment & Histo; Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; 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