The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism /
Rome, Adam Ward.
The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in environment and history .
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.
0521800595 0521804906 (pb)
00058526
Environmentalism--History.--United States
Suburbs--Environmental aspects--History.--United States
GE197 / .R66 2001
333.73/15/0973
The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001. - xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Studies in environment and history .
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.
0521800595 0521804906 (pb)
00058526
Environmentalism--History.--United States
Suburbs--Environmental aspects--History.--United States
GE197 / .R66 2001
333.73/15/0973