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Last harvest : how a cornfield became New Daleville : real estate development in America from George Washington to the builders of the twenty-first century, and why we live in houses anyway / Witold Rybczynski.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HT169.57.U62 N497 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rybczynski, Witold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Planned communities--Pennsylvania--Londonderry (Chester County)--Case studies.
- Planned communities.
- Real estate development--United States--History.
- Real estate development.
- Housing--United States--History.
- Housing.
- History.
- New Daleville (Pa.)--History.
- New Daleville (Pa.).
- United States.
- Pennsylvania.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, [2007]
- Summary:
- The bestselling author of "Home" and "A Clearing in the Distance" tells the compelling story of the transformation of a Pennsylvania cornfield into a RneotraditionalS housing development--taking the reader on a revelatory inside tour of real estate in America.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Nichols fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780743235969
- 0743235967
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