TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rome,Adam
TI  - The bulldozer in the countryside: suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism 
T2  - Studies in environment and history
SN  - 9781107741744
AV  - GE197 .B855 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Environmentalism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Suburbs
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Green movement
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Levitt's progress: the rise of the suburban-industrial complex --; From the solar house to the all-electric home: the postwar debates over heating and cooling --; Septic-tank suburbia: the problem of waste disposal at the metropolitan fringe --; Open space: the first protests against the bulldozed landscape --; Where not to build: the campaigns to protect wetlands, hillsides, and floodplains --; Water, soil, and wildlife: the federal critiques of tract-house development --; Toward a land ethic: the quiet revolution in land-use regulation; 2; b
N2  - The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development. By the mid-1960s, indeed, many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. This is the first scholarly work to analyze the successes and failures of the varied efforts to address the environmental consequences of suburban growth from 1945 to 1970
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