Author: John Matthew GriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartment houses
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Slums, Large-scale Housing and Decentralization
Author: John Matthew GriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartment houses
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Slums, large-scale housing and decentralization
Author: Slums, Large-scale Housing and Decentralization: Reports of the Committees on Blighted Areas and Slums, Abram Garfield, Chairman
Author: James FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartment houses
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publications: Slums, large-scale housing and decentralizaiton
Author: James FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Home ownership
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Miscellaneous Publication
Author: The Bulldozer in the Countryside
Author: Adam RomePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110774170X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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. The Bulldozer in the Countryside was 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. For scholars and students of American history, the book offers a compelling insight into two of the great stories of modern times - the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. The book also offers a valuable historical perspective for participants in contemporary debates about the alternatives to sprawl.
Colored Property
Author: David M. P. FreundPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226262774
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Northern whites in the post–World War II era began to support the principle of civil rights, so why did many of them continue to oppose racial integration in their communities? Challenging conventional wisdom about the growth, prosperity, and racial exclusivity of American suburbs, David M. P. Freund argues that previous attempts to answer this question have overlooked a change in the racial thinking of whites and the role of suburban politics in effecting this change. In Colored Property, he shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of residential exclusion—away from invocations of a mythical racial hierarchy and toward talk of markets, property, and citizenship. Freund begins his exploration by tracing the emergence of a powerful public-private alliance that facilitated postwar suburban growth across the nation with federal programs that significantly favored whites. Then, showing how this national story played out in metropolitan Detroit, he visits zoning board and city council meetings, details the efforts of neighborhood “property improvement” associations, and reconstructs battles over race and housing to demonstrate how whites learned to view discrimination not as an act of racism but as a legitimate response to the needs of the market. Illuminating government’s powerful yet still-hidden role in the segregation of U.S. cities, Colored Property presents a dramatic new vision of metropolitan growth, segregation, and white identity in modern America.
Domestic Commerce
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1822
Book Description
American City Planning Since 1890
Author: Mel ScottPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520020511
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description