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It really is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled up with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and everything that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big administration" first had taken root in the us fostered what historian Steven Conn conditions the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists needed the decentralization of the town, and declined the role of administration in American life in favor of a return to the pioneer virtues of self-reliance and self-sufficiency. On this provocative and sweeping audiobook, Conn explores the anti-urban impulse over the 20th century, examining the way the ideas born than it have shaped both the places in which Americans live and work, and the anti-government politics so strong today. Beginning in the booming professional towns of the Progressive period at the move of the 20th century, where debate bordering these questions first arose, Conn examines the progression of anti-urban actions. He explains the decentralist motion of the 1930s, the try to revive the American small town in the mid-century, the anti-urban basis of urban renewal in the 1950s and '60s, and the Nixon administration's program of creating new towns as a response to the urban crisis, illustrating how, by the center of the 20th century, anti-urbanism was at the guts of the politics of the brand new Right. Concluding with an exploration of the brand new Urbanist tests at the move of the 21st century, Conn demonstrates the entire breadth of the anti-urban impulse, from its inception to the present day. Engagingly written, extensively researched, and forcefully argued, Americans From the City is very important to anyone who cares not just about the annals of our towns, but about their future as well.
