The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome.

Main entry:

Rome, Adam, 1959-

Title & Author:

The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome.

Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Description:

xvi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Studies in environment and history

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Frederick Jackson Turner Award, 2002

Summary:

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.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0521800595
9780521800594
0521804906 (pb)
9780521804905 (pb)

Subject:

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.
Green movement
Environmentalism
Suburbanisierung
Ökologische Bewegung
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Milieuaantasting.
Ecologische beweging.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Studies in environment and history.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 225379
Call No.: GE197 .R6 2001
Status: Available

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