Last harvest : how a cornfield became New Daleville : real estate development in America from George Washington to the builders of the twenty-first century, and why we live in houses anyway / Witold Rybczynski.
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New York :
Scribner,
c2007.
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| Summary: | "In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about: New Daleville, it was only a developer's ideas, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met everyone involved in the transformation of this land - from the developers, to the community leaders whose approvals they needed, to the home builders and sewage experts and, ultimately, the first families who moved in." "Rybczynski 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes: | Bib#: 1833791 |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and index. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9780743235969 (hbk.) 0743235967 (hbk.) 9780743235976 (pbk.) 0743235975 (pbk.) |
| Bib#: | 1833791 |
