Format:
XVI, 299 S.
,
Ill.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
0521804906
,
0521800595
Series Statement:
Studies in environment and history
Content:
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Levitt's Progress: The Rise of the -- Suburban-Industrial Complex -- 2 From the Solar House to the All-Electric Home: -- The Postwar Debates over Heating and Cooling -- 3 Septic-Tank Suburbia: The Problem of Waste -- Disposal at the Metropolitan Fringe -- 4 Open Space: The First Protests against the -- Bulldozed Landscape -- 5 Where Not to Build: The Campaigns to Protect -- Wetlands, Hillsides, and Floodplains -- 6 Water, Soil, and Wildlife: The Federal Critiques of -- Tract-House Development -- 7 Toward a Land Ethic: The Quiet Revolution in -- Land-Use Regulation -- Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Levitt's Progress: The Rise of the -- Suburban-Industrial Complex -- 2 From the Solar House to the All-Electric Home: -- The Postwar Debates over Heating and Cooling -- 3 Septic-Tank Suburbia: The Problem of Waste -- Disposal at the Metropolitan Fringe -- 4 Open Space: The First Protests against the -- Bulldozed Landscape -- 5 Where Not to Build: The Campaigns to Protect -- Wetlands, Hillsides, and Floodplains -- 6 Water, Soil, and Wildlife: The Federal Critiques of -- Tract-House Development -- 7 Toward a Land Ethic: The Quiet Revolution in -- Land-Use Regulation -- Conclusion
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Geography
,
General works
Keywords:
USA
;
Stadtrandsiedlung
;
Ausbreitung
;
Umweltbelastung
;
Geschichte 1945-1970
;
USA
;
Umweltbewusstsein
;
Geschichte 1945-2001
;
USA
;
Vorstadt
;
Suburbaner Raum
;
Stadtplanung
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/00058526.html
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