The bulldozer in the countryside suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I 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 Suburb...

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1. Verfasser: Rome, Adam (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, New York Cambridge University Press 2001
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in environment and history
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Zusammenfassung:Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I 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
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 299 S.
Ill.
ISBN:0521804906
0-521-80490-6
0521800595
0-521-80059-5