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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
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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.
ISBN
9780743235969
0743235967
Published
New York : Scribner, c2007.
Physical Description
x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 22, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index.
Contents
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.
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