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This Land : The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (310 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801889172
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: This LandDDC classification:
  • 307.76/0973
LOC classification:
  • HT384.U5F55 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Developing America -- 1 : Grids and Greenfields -- 2 : Suburbia's Promise, and Curse -- 3 : New Paradigm: New Urbanism -- 4 : The Smart Growth Revolution -- 5 : Walk Daily, Buy Local, Build Green -- 6 : Hands Off My Land -- 7 : Dream Defenders and Sprawl Inc. -- 8 : Pitched Battles -- 9 : The Density Dilemma -- 10 : Smart, and Fair -- 11 : Planning and Disaster -- Conclusion: Six Healthy Habits for Sensible Growth -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: But with up to 120 million more people in the country by 2050, will the spread-out pattern cave in on itself? Could Americans embrace a new approach to development if it made sense for them?A veteran journalist who covered planning, development, and housing for the Boston Globe for sixteen years and a visiting scholar in 2005 at the Harvard Design School, Flint reveals some surprising truths about the future and how we live in This Land.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Developing America -- 1 : Grids and Greenfields -- 2 : Suburbia's Promise, and Curse -- 3 : New Paradigm: New Urbanism -- 4 : The Smart Growth Revolution -- 5 : Walk Daily, Buy Local, Build Green -- 6 : Hands Off My Land -- 7 : Dream Defenders and Sprawl Inc. -- 8 : Pitched Battles -- 9 : The Density Dilemma -- 10 : Smart, and Fair -- 11 : Planning and Disaster -- Conclusion: Six Healthy Habits for Sensible Growth -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

But with up to 120 million more people in the country by 2050, will the spread-out pattern cave in on itself? Could Americans embrace a new approach to development if it made sense for them?A veteran journalist who covered planning, development, and housing for the Boston Globe for sixteen years and a visiting scholar in 2005 at the Harvard Design School, Flint reveals some surprising truths about the future and how we live in This Land.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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