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The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. This is 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107741744 1107741742 9780511816703 0511816707 1107741629 9781107741621 1139882910 9781139882910 1107741602 9781107741607 1107741661 9781107741669 1107741637 9781107741638 |