What is it about?
This is a review of two recent works exploring the planning history in the United States. Americans Against the City and Dead end provide context to the current state of American urban policy and the links to historical ideas about community and property in the United States.
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Why is it important?
Both of these works are excellent texts to assign to students and for a general audience interested in the origins of current urban conditions.
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I think these reviews will be helpful for anyone interested in learning more about these books.
Dr Julian C Chambliss
Michigan State University
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This page is a summary of: Americans against the city: Anti-urbanism in the twentieth century, by Steven Conn; and Dead end: Suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism, by Benjamin Ross, Journal of Urban Affairs, May 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1111/juaf.12272.
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