Reclaiming American cities : the struggle for people, place, and nature since 1900
- Title
- Reclaiming American cities : the struggle for people, place, and nature since 1900 / Rutherford H. Platt.
- Published by
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 298 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- American cities in 1900: a patchwork of silk and rags -- Competing visions in the Progressive Era -- The central city renewal engine -- The suburban sprawl engine -- Battling the bulldozer: the Indiana Dunes and other sacred places -- Legacies of sprawl: a witch's brew -- Replanting urbanism in the 1990s: a garden of acronyms -- New age "Central Parks": two grand slams in a single -- Reclaiming urban waterways: one stream at a time -- Humane urbanism at ground level.
- Call number
- JFE 15-7494
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index.
- Author
- Platt, Rutherford H.
- Title
- Reclaiming American cities : the struggle for people, place, and nature since 1900 / Rutherford H. Platt.
- Publisher
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2014]
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-286) and index.
- LCCN
- 2013031756
- ISBN
- 9781625340498 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1625340494 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781625340504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1625340508 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Research call number
- JFE 15-7494