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It Is A Paradox Of American Life That We Are A Highly Urbanized Nation Filled With People Deeply Ambivalent About Urban Life. An Aversion To Urban Density And All That It Contributes To Urban Life, And A Perception That The City Was The Place Where Big Government First Took Root In America Fostered What Historian Steven Conn Terms The Anti-urban Impulse. In Response, Anti-urbanists Called For The Decentralization Of The City, And Rejected The Role Of Government In American Life In Favor Of A Return To The Pioneer Virtues Of Independence And Self-sufficiency. In This Provocative And Sweeping Book, Conn Explores The Anti-urban Impulse Across The 20th Century, Examining How The Ideas Born Of It Have Shaped Both The Places In Which Americans Live And Work, And The Anti-government Politics So Strong Today. Beginning In The Booming Industrial Cities Of The Progressive Era At The Turn Of The 20th Century, Where Debate Surrounding These Questions First Arose, Conn Examines The Progression Of Anti-urban Movements. : He Describes The Decentralist Movement Of The 1930s, The Attempt To Revive The American Small Town In The Mid-century, The Anti-urban Basis Of Urban Renewal In The 1950s And '60

Author

Steven Conn

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199973682

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science