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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rome, Adam, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Studies in environment and history.
Temas:
Environmentalism > United States > History.
Suburbs > Environmental aspects > United States > History.
Green movement > United States > History.
Écologisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Banlieues > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Green movement
Environmentalism
Suburbanisierung
Ökologische Bewegung
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Milieuaantasting.
Ecologische beweging.
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex
  • From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling
  • Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe
  • Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape
  • Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains
  • Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development
  • Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation.

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