The bulldozer in the countryside suburban sprawl and the rise of american environmentalism by adam rome new york cambridge university press 2001 xvi 299 pp cloth 5495 isbn 0 521 80059 5 paper 1995 isbn 0 521 80490 6. Serving as an essential corrective to the belief that environmentalism has only lately come around to confronting the ecological consequences of urban land use adam romes the bulldozer in the countryside suburban sprawl and the rise of american environmentalism uncovers a largely forgotten history of political controversy surrounding the explosive growth of suburbia in the decades following world war iithe bulldozer in the countryside is important reading which shows conclusively . The bulldozer in the countryside suburban sprawl and the rise of american environmentalism by adam rome cambridge uk and new york cambridge university press 2001 299 pp photographs notes cloth 5500 paper 2000 during the post world war ii era the concept of the suburb came to define the american character. The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new in the decades after world war ii the spread of tract house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land and a variety of americans began to protest against the environmental costs of suburban development by the mid 1960s indeed many of the critics were attempting to institutionalize an urban land ethic. Serving as an essential corrective to the belief that environmentalism has only lately come around to confronting the ecological consequences of urban land use adam romes the bulldozer in the countryside suburban sprawl and the rise of american environmentalism uncovers a largely forgotten history of political controversy surrounding the explosive growth of suburbia in the decades following world war iithe bulldozer in the countryside is important reading which shows conclusively