Rome, Adam Ward <br/><br/>
The bulldozer in the countryside :  suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism / 
Adam Rome 
 - Cambridge :  Cambridge University Press,  2001 
 - xvi, 299 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Studies in environment and history .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Levitt's Progress: The Rise of the -- Suburban-Industrial Complex -- 2 From the Solar House to the All-Electric Home: -- The Postwar Debates over Heating and Cooling -- 3 Septic-Tank Suburbia: The Problem of Waste -- Disposal at the Metropolitan Fringe -- 4 Open Space: The First Protests against the -- Bulldozed Landscape -- 5 Where Not to Build: The Campaigns to Protect -- Wetlands, Hillsides, and Floodplains -- 6 Water, Soil, and Wildlife: The Federal Critiques of -- Tract-House Development -- 7 Toward a Land Ethic: The Quiet Revolution in -- Land-Use Regulation -- Conclusion 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521800595 (hbk.) 9780521800594 (hbk.) 9780521804905 (pbk.)  hadiah 0521804906 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmentalism--History--United States<br/>Suburbs--Environmental aspects--History--United States