Of Cabbages and Kings County

Of Cabbages and Kings County

Author: Marc Linder

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 9780877457145

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In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?