The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / Adam Rome.
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TextSeries: Studies in environment and historyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0521800595
- 0521804906 (pb)
- 333.73/15/0973 21
- GE197 .R66 2001
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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.
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