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City and Country in Environmental and Political Disorder
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Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at the root of our current environmental and political disorder. This oversimplifying dualism has distorted how we planned cities, our patterns of production and consumption, how we deal with waste, and how urban and rural populations perceive each other. Conventional urban environmental reform has made modern city life possible, but it has done little to limit the despoliation of distant places. Nevertheless, the successes of urban environmental reform remind us of what is possible. John Fairfield concludes with a case study of Phoenix, Arizona to demonstrate this dysfunctional relationship between city and country while developing a sympathetic critique of the Green New Deal. He suggests how we might bridge the “great divide” as we face the daunting challenges the twenty-first century is pressing upon us.

Author Biography:

John D. Fairfield is Professor of History at Xavier University. He is the author of The Public and its Possibilities: Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City (Temple), The Mysteries of the Great City: The Politics of Urban Design, 1877-1937, and Oakley: From Hamlet to the Center of Cincinnati, as well as the coeditor of Bringing The Civic Back In: Zane L. Miller and American Urban History (Temple).
Release date NZ
June 7th, 2024
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Pages
316
ISBN-13
9781439925713
Product ID
38236487

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