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Sprawl, justice, and citizenship : the civic costs of the American way of life
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ISBN: 0199897573 0199888035 9786612544156 019970886X 1282544152 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans find many of the more substantial criticisms of sprawl easy to ignore because they often come across as snobbish in tone. Yet as Thad Williamson explains, sprawl does create real, measurable social problems. Williamson's work is unique in two importa


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Sprawl, justice, and citizenship : the civic costs of the American way of life.
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ISBN: 9780195369434 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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Property-owning democracy : Rawls and beyond.
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ISBN: 9781444334104 Year: 2012 Publisher: Chichester Wiley-Blackwell


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Leadership and global justice
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ISBN: 9780230339040 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan

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Making a Place for Community
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ISBN: 0415947413 1315811189 1317794788 9781317794783 9781315811185 9780415933568 9781317794769 9781317794776 9780415947411 131779477X Year: 2002 Publisher: London Routledge

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When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of community is being caused by contemporary policies that, if not changed, will continue to foster the decline of community. Increased capital flow between nations is not at the root of the problem

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