Benjamin Ross

Dead End

Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

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Produktbeschreibung

A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190263300
• ISBN-10: 019026330X
• Artikelnr.: 47864070

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Ross was president of Maryland's Action Committee for Transit for 15 years, which grew under his leadership into the nation's largest grass-roots transit advocacy group. He is a consultant on environmental problems and served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and EPA Science Advisory Board. He writes frequently on political and social topics in Dissent Magazine and is the author of The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
Escape from the suburbs * Part I
Getting Hooked * Chapter 1
The strange birth of suburbia * Chapter 2
Planners and embalmers * Chapter 3
Government
sponsored sprawl * Chapter 4
Ticky
tacky boxes * Chapter 5
Jane Jacobs vs. the planners * Chapter 6
Saving the city * Chapter 7
The age of the nimby * Part II
The Sprawl Addiction * Chapter 8
Spreading like cancer * Chapter 9
The war of greed against snobbery * Chapter 10
A new thirst for city life * Chapter 11
Backlash from the right * Chapter 12
The language of land use * Part III
How to Kick the Habit * Chapter 13
Struggles for smart growth * Chapter 14
Democratic urbanism * Chapter 15
Affordable housing in an ownership economy * Chapter 16
On track toward livable cities * Afterword