Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century /
It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took r...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the ""anti-urban impulse."" In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative and swe. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780199973675 0199973679 0199973660 9780199973668 0199973687 9780199973682 |