Of Cabbages and Kings County

Of Cabbages and Kings County
Author: Marc Linder
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780877457145

In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?