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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsLast Harvest: From Cornfield to New Townby Witold Rybczynski
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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." About the AuthorWitold Rybczynski, born in Edinburgh, raised in Canada, and currently living in Philadelphia, is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written on architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the critically acclaimed Home and the A Clearing in the Distance, a biography of frederick Law Olmsted, for which he was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He is the recipient of the National Building Museum’s 2007 Vincent Scully Prize. Table of ContentsCONTENTS PART ONE Prologue 1. The Developer 2. Seaside 3. Epiphanies 4. Last Harvest 5. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Real Estate 6. Joe's Deal 7. On the Bus 8. Meetings 9. Scatteration 10. More Meetings PART TWO 11. Drop by Drop 12. On the Way to Exurbia 13. Design Matters 14. Locked In 15. House and Home 16. Generic Traditional 17. The Dream 18. Builders 19. A Compromise PART THREE 20. Trade-offs 21. Mike and Mike 22. Ranchers, Picture Windows, and Morning Rooms 23. Pushing Dirt 24. The Market Rules 25. Bumps in the Road 26. Hard Sell 27. Competition 28. The Spreadsheet Buyers 29. Moving Day POSTSCRIPT A NEW AFTERWORD Acknowledgments Notes Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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