Reclaiming American cities : the struggle for people, place, and nature since 1900 / Rutherford H. Platt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Platt, Rutherford H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--United States.

Urbanization.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy.

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Urban ecology (Sociology)--United States.

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For most of the past century, urban America was dominated by top-down policies serving the white business and cultural elite, the suburbs, and the automobile.At times these approaches were fiercely challenged by reformers such as Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Train Journey into the Past and Future

Part I: The Patrician Decades, 1900-1940

1. American Cities in 1900: A Patchwork of Silk and Rags

2. Competing Visions in the Progressive Era

Part II: The Technocrat Decades, 1945-1990

3. The Central City Renewal Engine

4. The Suburban Sprawl Engine

5. Battling the Bulldozer: The Indiana Dunes and Other Sacred Places

6. Legacies of Sprawl: A Witch's Brew

Part III: The (More) Humane Decades, 1990-Present

7. Replanting Urbanism in the 1990s: A Garden of Acronyms

8. New Age "Central Parks": Two Grand Slams and a Single

9. Reclaiming Urban Waterways: One Stream at a Time

10. Humane Urbanism at Ground Level

Epilogue

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-61376-285-2

OCLC:

879306122