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100	1		_aRoss, Benjamin.
245	1	0	_aDead end : _bsuburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / _cBenjamin Ross.
264		1	_aOxford : _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c[2014]
300			_avi, 249 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall-ridden suburbs of today. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy planning. Its roots are historical, sociological, and economic. He uses these insights to lay out a practical strategy for change, honed by his experience leading the largest grass-roots mass transit advocacy organization in the United States. The problems of smart growth, sustainability, transportation, and affordable housing, he argues, are intertwined and must be solved as a whole. The two keys to creating better places to live are expansion of rail transit and a more genuinely democratic oversight of land use. Dead End is, ultimately, about the places where we live our lives. Both an engaging history of suburbia and an invaluable guide for today's urbanists, it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in how Americans actually live"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the human impulses that keep sprawl spreading"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- Introduction - Escape from the suburbs -- Part I - Getting Hooked -- Chapter 1 - The strange birth of suburbia -- Chapter 2 - Planners and embalmers -- Chapter 3 - Government-sponsored sprawl -- Chapter 4 - Ticky-tacky boxes -- Chapter 5 - Jane Jacobs vs. the planners -- Chapter 6 - Saving the city -- Chapter 7 - The age of the nimby -- Part II - The Sprawl Addiction -- Chapter 8 - Spreading like cancer -- Chapter 9 - The war of greed against snobbery -- Chapter 10 - A new thirst for city life -- Chapter 11 - Backlash from the right -- Chapter 12 - The language of land use -- Part III - How to Kick the Habit -- Chapter 13 - Struggles for smart growth -- Chapter 14 - Democratic urbanism -- Chapter 15 - Affordable housing in an ownership economy -- Chapter 16 - On track toward livable cities -- Afterword.
650		0	_aSuburbs _zUnited States.
650		0	_aCities and towns _zUnited States _xGrowth.
650		0	_aUrbanization _zUnited States.
650		0	_aTraffic flow _zUnited States.
650		0	_aLand use _zUnited States _xPlanning.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / General. _2bisacsh
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