Publication

2009 - Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

156,500 words, Guess

Page Count

626 pages

Identifiers

and 8 more
  • ISBN-100822344513
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009030092
  • OCLC Control Number430344415
  • Better World BooksO8-CWL-320
  • Better World Books9780822344513
  • Better World Books9780822344360
  • Better World BooksP7-CCG-437
  • Open LibraryOL24116327M

Classifications

  • DDC307.760973
  • LCCHT371 .T39 2009
  • LCCHT371.T39 2009

Description

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental problems, and the perceptions of and responses to breakdowns in social order, from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.-publisher description.

Subjects

Topics

GrowthHistoryUrbanitätStadtplanungCity planningSocial aspectsStadtsoziologie

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