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Ross, Benjamin.
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Traffic flow -- United States.
Land use -- United States -- Planning.
Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth.
Urbanization -- United States.
Suburbs -- United States.
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Ross, Benjamin.
Traffic flow -- United States.
Land use -- United States -- Planning.
Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth.
Urbanization -- United States.
Suburbs -- United States.
MARC Display
Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / Benjamin Ross.
by
Ross, Benjamin.
Oxford University Press, c2014.
Call #:
307.74 R823d
Subjects
Traffic flow
--
United
States
.
Land
use
--
United
States
--
Planning
.
Cities and towns
--
United
States
--
Growth.
Urbanization
--
United
States
.
Suburbs
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
0199360146 (hardback)
9780199360147 (hardback)
Description:
vi, 249 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note:
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Introduction - Escape from the suburbs
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Part I - Getting Hooked
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Chapter 1 - The strange birth of suburbia
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Chapter 2 - Planners and embalmers
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Chapter 3 - Government-sponsored sprawl
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Chapter 4 - Ticky-tacky boxes
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Chapter 5 - Jane Jacobs vs. the planners
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Chapter 6 - Saving the city
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Chapter 7 - The age of the nimby
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Part II - The Sprawl Addiction
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Chapter 8 - Spreading like cancer
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Chapter 9 - The war of greed against snobbery
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Chapter 10 - A new thirst for city life
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Chapter 11 - Backlash from the right
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Chapter 12 - The language of
land
use
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Part III - How to Kick the Habit
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Chapter 13 - Struggles for smart growth
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Chapter 14 - Democratic urbanism
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Chapter 15 - Affordable housing in an ownership economy
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Chapter 16 - On track toward livable cities
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Afterword.
Summary:
"A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading"--Provided by publisher.
"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs of today. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy
planning
. Its roots are historical, sociological, and economic. He uses these insights to lay out a practical strategy for change, honed by his experience leading the largest grass-roots mass transit advocacy organization in the
United
States
. The problems of smart growth, sustainability, transportation, and affordable housing, he argues, are intertwined and must be solved as a whole. The two keys to creating better places to live are expansion of rail transit and a more genuinely democratic oversight of
land
use
. Dead End is, ultimately, about the places where we live our lives. Both an engaging history of suburbia and an invaluable guide for today's urbanists, it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in how Americans actually live"--Provided by publisher.
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