Last Harvest - 9780743235976
Un libro in lingua di Witold Rybczynski edito da Scribner, 2008
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When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the building of this residential subdivision -- from the developers to the township leaders, whose approval they needed, to the home builders and engineers and, ultimately, the first families who moved in.
Always eloquent and illuminating, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance looks at this "neotraditional" project, with its houses built close together to encourage a sense of intimacy and community, and explains the trends in American domestic architecture -- from where we place our kitchens and fences to why our bathrooms get larger every year.
Last Harvest was voted one of the ten best books of 2008 by the editors of Planetizen, and as Publishers Weekly said, "Rybczynski provides historical and cultural perspectives in a style reminiscent of Malcolm Gladwell, debunking the myth of urban sprawl and explaining American homeowners' preference for single-family dwellings."
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Last Harvest
- Sottotitolo: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America From George Washington to the Builders of The Twenty-first Century, and Why w
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Witold Rybczynski
- Editore: Scribner
- Collana: Scribner (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 13 Maggio '08
- Genere: ARCHITECTURE
- Argomenti : Planned communities Pennsylvania Londonderry (Chester County : Township) Case studies Real estate development United States History Housing United States History
- Pagine: 315
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 139 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0743235975
- EAN-13: 9780743235976