Crossing Great Divides

Autorentext

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).

Klappentext

"Argues that the habit of thinking of the city and the country as opposites is at the root of our environmental and political disorder, and suggests approaches to bridge this social, political, and ecological divide"--