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100 1  Ross, Benjamin. 
245 10 Dead end :|bsuburban sprawl and the rebirth of American 
       urbanism /|cBenjamin Ross. 
264  1 Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|c[2014] 
300    vi, 249 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction : Escape from the suburbs -- The strange 
       birth of suburbia -- Planners and embalmers -- Government-
       sponsored sprawl -- Ticky-tacky boxes -- Jane Jacobs 
       versus the planners -- Saving the city -- The age of the 
       nimby -- Spreading like cancer -- The war of greed against
       snobbery A new thirst for city life -- Backlash from the 
       right -- The language of land use -- Breaking new ground -
       - The politics of smart growth -- Democratic urbanism -- 
       Affordable housing in an ownership economy -- On track 
       toward livable cities -- Afterword. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "A witty, readable, and highly original tour through the 
       history of America's suburbs and cities to uncover the 
       human impulses that keep sprawl spreading"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
650  0 Suburbs|zUnited States. 
650  0 Cities and towns|zUnited States|xGrowth. 
650  0 Urbanization|zUnited States. 
650  0 Traffic flow|zUnited States. 
650  0 Land use|zUnited States|xPlanning. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.|2bisacsh 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General.
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650  7 Cities and towns|xGrowth.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00861781 
650  7 Land use|xPlanning.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00991528 
650  7 Suburbs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01136941 
650  7 Traffic flow.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01154142 
650  7 Urbanization.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01162722 
651  7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 
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