The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.