Rome, Adam Ward. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521800595 0521804906 (pb) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>00058526  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmentalism--History.--United States<br/>Suburbs--Environmental aspects--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GE197  / .R66 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>333.73/15/0973