Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
Language: English
Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1997
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Minimal rubbing to top and bottom edges of binding. Minimal foxing on inside of covers. Mild rubbing, some curling to top and bottom of dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Richard Moe on the first page as follows: "To ____ - I hope this helps with your planning! Best wishes, Richard Moe 2/12/98." America's preservation movement came of age a generation ago, working to protect historic places from the destruction of urban renewal. Now preservationists are embroiled in the fight of their lives against urban sprawl--boundless development that devours the countryside and leaves older cities and towns to waste away in ruins. Never was this more clear than in 1994, when a band of historians, preservationists, and local citizens stopped the Walt Disney Company from developing a theme park amid historical battlefields and villages in Virginia's northern Piedmont region. In "Changing Places," Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie explore how America's historic communities are confronting sprawl: fragile towns throughout New England and the Midwest are defending themselves from corporate giants like Wal-Mart stores; community activists are building pride and hope in distressed neighborhoods in Pittsburgh and New Orleans by using preservation as a tool for revitalization; and, in the same way, cities such as Denver, Memphis, and Portland, Oregon, are breathing life back into their historic downtowns. …
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- Title
- Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
- Author
- Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1997
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805043683
- ISBN 13
- 9780805043686
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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