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Author | : Martin Anderson |
Publisher | : Cambridge : M.I.T. Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : City planning |
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"Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University." Bibliography: p. 262-266.
Author | : Martin ANDERSON (Assistant Professor of Finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.) |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Martin Anderson |
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Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : Wallace Francis Smith |
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Release | : 1966 |
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Author | : Peter H. Nash |
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Total Pages | : 976 |
Release | : 1965 |
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Author | : Adam Rome |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2001-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521804905 |
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.
Author | : Andrew C. Baker |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0820354147 |
Foreword / by James C. Giesen -- Introduction : a more rural metropolitan history -- Clearing the backwoods -- Cultivating the fringe -- Damming the hinterlands -- Settling the forest -- Enshrining the countryside -- Conclusion : a tale of two villages.
Author | : Francesca Russello Ammon |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2016-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300220545 |
Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
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Total Pages | : 1774 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Law reports, digests, etc |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Highway law |
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