Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 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
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 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
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Plate section
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- The Bulldozer in the CountrysideSuburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, pp. 293 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001