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Author: Anthony Flint (Fellow & Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780801884191
ISBN 10: 0801884195
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 05 July 2006
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
Flint provides a historical perspective on how we became a suburban nation... with the easy-flowing, narrative skill of a journalist. -- Lawrence Bluestone, Architecture Boston
<p>Flint provides a historical perspective on how we became a suburban nation... with the easy-flowing, narrative skill of a journalist.--Lawrence Bluestone Architecture Boston (01/01/2008)
Engaging, vivid and provocative work. Written with analytical rigor but also a crafty journalistic eye for the human-interest story that crystallizes an abstract theme, this book merits inclusion in any library. Library Journal A panoramic and extraordinarily up-to-date account of the struggle over how America builds. -- Philip Langdon New Urban News This Land offers a provocative and insightful overview of the challenges of sprawl. Boston Globe Those who truly hate sprawl and want to fight back would be well advised to read this book. Audubon Well researched, well written... very personable and readable. Recommended for all readers. Northeastern Naturalist Flint provides a historical perspective on how we became a suburban nation... with the easy-flowing, narrative skill of a journalist. -- Lawrence Bluestone Architecture Boston As an inquiry into the backlash against 'smart growth'... it offers valuable insights and unsettling observations from the frontlines of the battles over land use and suburban development. -- Tom Urbaniak Urban Affairs Review Cear, well-written overview of the sprawl debate. -- Jackie Begley Berkeley Planning Journal This Land is an important discussion of the future of America, its cities, and what lies outside of it. Midwest Book Review
Engaging, vivid and provocative work. Written with analytical rigor but also a crafty journalistic eye for the human-interest story that crystallizes an abstract theme, this book merits inclusion in any library. Library Journal 2006 A panoramic and extraordinarily up-to-date account of the struggle over how America builds. -- Philip Langdon New Urban News 2006 This Land offers a provocative and insightful overview of the challenges of sprawl. Boston Globe 2006 Those who truly hate sprawl and want to fight back would be well advised to read this book. Audubon 2007 Well researched, well written... very personable and readable. Recommended for all readers. -- S. O'M Northeastern Naturalist 2006 Flint provides a historical perspective on how we became a suburban nation... with the easy-flowing, narrative skill of a journalist. -- Lawrence Bluestone Architecture Boston 2008
Author Information
Author Website: www.anthonyflint.net
Anthony Flint is a fellow and director of public affairs at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the author of Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took on New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City.
