The bulldozer in the countryside : suburban sprawl and the rise of American environmentalism - Rome, Adam Ward (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Environmentalism -- United States -- History; Suburbs -- Environmental aspects -- United States -- History