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03357aam a2200325Mi 4500 001 96410156087B11E7B9A1B0E4DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170314010039 008 160105r20162014nyuab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 019026330X 020 $a 9780190263300 035 $a (OCoLC)944388193 040 $a EQO $b eng $e rda $c EQO $d BDX $d UNBCA $d OCLCF $d YDXCP $d IOB $d SILO 050 14 $a HT352.U6 $b R67 2016 100 1 $a Ross, Benjamin, $e author. 245 10 $a Dead end : $b suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / $c Benjamin Ross. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a vi, 249 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Originally published: 2014. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Introduction: Escape from the suburbs -- 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 versus the planners -- Chapter 6 -- Saving the city -- Chapter 7 -- The age of the nimby -- 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 -- Chapter 13 -- Breaking new ground -- Chapter 14 -- The politics of smart growth -- Chapter 15 -- Democratic urbanism -- Chapter 16 -- Affordable housing in an ownership society -- Chapter 17 -- On track toward livable cities. 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Suburbs $z United States. 650 0 $a Urbanization $z United States. 650 0 $a Traffic flow $z United States. 650 0 $a Land use $z United States $x Planning. 941 $a 1 952 $l UUAX975 $d 20170314010842.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=96410156087B11E7B9A1B0E4DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IOBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search