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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Published: New York : Scribner, c2007.
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245 1 0 |a Last harvest :  |b 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 /  |c Witold Rybczynski. 
260 |a New York :  |b Scribner,  |c c2007. 
300 |a x, 309 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-296) and index. 
505 0 |a I: The developer -- Seaside -- Epiphanies -- Last harvest -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of real estate -- Joe's deal -- On the bus -- Meetings -- Scatteration -- More meetings -- II: Drop by drop -- On the way to exurbia -- Design matters -- Locked in -- House and home -- Generic traditional -- The dream -- Builders -- A compromise -- III: Trade-offs -- Mike and Mike -- Ranchers, picture windows, and morning rooms -- Pushing dirt -- The market rules -- Bumps in the road -- Hard sell -- Competition -- The spreadsheet buyers -- Moving day. 
520 1 |a "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. 
650 0 |a Planned communities  |z Pennsylvania  |z Londonderry (Chester County : Township)  |v Case studies. 
650 0 |a Real estate development  |z United States  |x History. 
650 0 |a Housing  |z United States  |x History. 
651 0 |a New Daleville (Pa.)  |x History. 
991 |a 2012-12-13 
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