William Whyte, Open Space, and Environmental Activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4489917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam W Rome, Adam Rome (0000-0002-7508-0784, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-274 |
| Publication date | 1998-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1931-0846.1998.tb00108.x |
| OpenAlex | W2051337454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
In the late 1950s and early 1960s a variety of Americans began to protest the loss of open space to suburban sprawl. The critics of sprawl—William Whyte, most notably—argued that open space had great aesthetic, social, and ecological value. To preserve open space, activists lobbied for the acquisition of public land and touted land‐saving forms of development. Although both efforts brought important successes, both proved inadequate. Even so, the open‐space debate had enduring consequences: It shaped later efforts to force builders to meet new environmental obligations, and it played a key role in the evolution of the environmental movement
Civil engineering · Environmental ethics · Environmentalism · Land use · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Urban sprawl · Value (mathematics · Variety (cybernetics · American Environmental and Regional History · Computer Science · Engineering · Landscape and Cultural Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2012 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |