Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

By Steven Conn

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190636343
• ISBN13: 9780190636340
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"