This Land - The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America

Informationen zum Autor Anthony Flint is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City. Klappentext Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever--into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions. We cling to the notion of safer neighborhoods and better schools, but what we get, argues Anthony Flint, is long commutes, crushing gas prices and higher taxes--and a landscape of strip malls and office parks badly in need of a makeover. This Land tells the untold story of development in America--how the landscape is shaped by a furious clash of political, economic and cultural forces. It is the story of burgeoning anti-sprawl movement, a 1960s-style revolution of New Urbanism, smart growth, and green building. And it is the story of landowners fighting back on the basis of property rights, with free-market libertarians, homebuilders, road pavers, financial institutions, and even the lawn-care industry right alongside them. The subdivisions and extra-wide roadways are encroaching into the wetlands of Florida, ranchlands in Texas, and the desert outside Phoenix and Las Vegas. But with up to 120 million more people in the country by 2050, will the spread-out pattern cave in on itself? Could Americans embrace a new approach to development if it made sense for them? A veteran journalist who covered planning, development, and housing for the Boston Globe for sixteen years and a visiting scholar in 2005 at the Harvard Design School, Flint reveals some surprising truths about the future and how we live in This Land . Zusammenfassung Explores the economic! cultural! and political forces that make it difficult for sensible growth to gain a foothold in the United States. A journalist who covered planning! development! and housing for the Boston Globe! the author brings the land battle to life through the stories of its notorious soldiers. ...

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Flint, Anthony (Fellow & Director of Public Affair Flint, Anthony (Fellow & Director of Public Affairs Flint
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.07.2006
• EAN: 9780801884191
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8419-1
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / State, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Public Administration, Conservation of the environment, Central / national / federal government policies, City & town planning: architectural aspects, Regional government, Regional / local / state government