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Könyv Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship Thad Williamson

Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship

The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life

Szerző: Thad Williamson
Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-18 napon belül
56 563 Ft
Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central...

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Szerző
Thad Williamson
Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2010
oldal
416
EAN
9780195369434
ISBN
0195369432
Enbook ID
04518434
Kiadó
Oxford University Press Inc
Súly
724
Méretek
163 x 244 x 29

Teljes leírás

Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans find many of the more substantial criticisms of sprawl easy to ignore because they often come across as snobbish in tone. Yet as Thad Williamson explains, sprawl does create real, measurable social problems. Williamson's work is unique in two important ways. First, while he highlights the deleterious effects of sprawl on civic life in America, he is also evenhanded. He does not dismiss the pastoral, homeowning ideal that is at the root of sprawl, and is sympathetic to the vast numbers of Americans who very clearly prefer it. Secondly, his critique is neither aesthetic nor moralistic in tone, but based on social science. Utilizing a landmark 30,000-person survey, he shows that sprawl fosters civic disengagement, diminishes social trust, accentuates inequality, and negatively impacts the environment. Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship will not only be the most comprehensive work in print on the subject, it will be the first to offer a empirically rigorous critique of the most popular form of living in America today.

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