TY - CHAP
T1 - "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding"
T2 - The History and Politics of Urban Population Control
AU - Ross, Andrew
PY - 2012/5/15
Y1 - 2012/5/15
KW - "Nothing Gained by Overcrowding" -history and politics of urban population control
KW - "shrinking cities" in post-industrial Europe and North America -refueling racially inflected genre of population anxiety
KW - Anti-urban sentiment, reflex of elites seeking bucolic refuge -from sweaty mass
KW - Extracting rent, attracting gentry -holdings, new source of unearned increment
KW - John Winthrop's 1630 exhortation to Massachusetts Bay Colony pilgrims -building a "city upon a hill" model for Christian urbanism in the US
KW - Laissez-faire climate of Victorian capitalism -state intervention, brunt of population control
KW - Marxist analysis of urban space -environmentalist awareness of planetary limits to growth
KW - Population control, a primary principle -of city, regional and state planning
KW - Recorded urban history, cities' capacities -sign of prosperity, technical and administrative achievement
KW - Victorian industrial city, intolerable conditions -programs of conscience and uplift
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U2 - 10.1002/9781444395105.ch15
DO - 10.1002/9781444395105.ch15
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84885568599
SN - 9781405189811
SP - 169
EP - 178
BT - The New Blackwell Companion to the City
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
ER -