Americans Against the City : Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century.

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"It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. In this provocative and sweeping book, historian Steven Conn explores the "anti-urban impulse" across the 20th century and examines how those ideas have shape...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Conn, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2014.
Temas:
Urban renewal > United States > History.
Urbanization > United States > History.
Decentralization in government > United States > History.
Urbanization.
Decentralization in government > United States.
Rénovation urbaine > États-Unis > Histoire.
Urbanisation > États-Unis > Histoire.
Urbanisation.
urbanization.
SOCIOLOGY > Urban.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Social History.
Decentralization in government
Urban renewal
Urbanization
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The American Urban Paradox
  • 2. America's Urban Moment Arrives
  • 3. The Center Should Not Hold:Decentralizing the City in the 1920s and '30s
  • 4. New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal
  • 5. Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and The Folk
  • 6. The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal
  • 7. The Triumph of the Decentralized City
  • 8. Small Town, New Town, Commune
  • 9. New Communities, New Urbanisms
  • Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life.

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