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Americans Against the City
By Steven Conn
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In this provocative and sweeping book, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse across the 20th century, examining how the ideas born of it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today. Beginning in the booming industrial cities of the Progressive era at the turn of the 20th century, where debate surrounding these questions first arose, Conn examines the progression of anti-urban movements. : He describes the decentralist movement of the 1930s, the attempt to revive the American small town in the mid-century, the anti-urban basis of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, and the Nixon administration's program of building new towns as a response to the urban crisis, illustrating how, by the middle of the 20th century, anti-urbanism was at the center of the politics of the New Right. Concluding with an exploration of the New Urbanist experiments at the turn of the 21st century, Conn demonstrates the full breadth of the anti-urban impulse, from its inception to the present day. Engagingly written, thoroughly researched, and forcefully argued, Americans Against the City is important reading for anyone who cares not just about the history of our cities, but about their future as well.
RUSИсторик Стивен Конн определяет устойчивое недоверие к городу как одну из ключевых черт американской политической культуры. Отрицание плотной застройки, роли государства и самой идеи коллективной жизни сформировало то, &
Product details
Number of Pages:
634
Release Date:
2025-08-26
Publication Date:
2025-08-26
Publisher:
BiblioRossica
Languages:
Original:
Russian
ISBN13:
9798887199474
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Weight:
1055 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
38 cm
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