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The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism Book

The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
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 s, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism has a rating of 4 stars
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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 s, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
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  • The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
  • Written by author Adam Rome
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, January 2001
  • 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 s
  • First scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.
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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
1Levitt's Progress: The Rise of the Suburban-Industrial Complex15
2From the Solar House to the All-Electric Home: The Postwar Debates over Heating and Cooling45
3Septic-Tank Suburbia: The Problem of Waste Disposal at the Metropolitan Fringe87
4Open Space: The First Protests against the Bulldozed Landscape119
5Where Not to Build: The Campaigns to Protect Wetlands, Hillsides, and Floodplains153
6Water, Soil, and Wildlife: The Federal Critiques of Tract-House Development189
7Toward a Land Ethic: The Quiet Revolution in Land-Use Regulation221
Conclusion255
Selected Bibliography271
Index293


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