Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

by Steven Conn

Book Overview

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199973660
• ISBN13: 9780199973668
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"