Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville

witold rybczynski

Traces the creation of a Pennsylvania residential subdivision from its planning stage to the residence of its first owners, in an account that offers insight into the long process of development and how it is related to sprawl and ex-urban growth.

Genres nonfictionurbanismarchitectureurban planningurbanhistorybusinessdesignamerican historycities

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,2007

This edition

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Published: April 17, 2007 by Scribner
ISBN: 9780743235969
ASIN: 0743235967
Language: English

About the author

witold rybczynski

Witold Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh, of Polish parentage, raised in London, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught for twenty years. He is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also co-edits the Wharton Real Estate Review. Rybczynski has designed and built houses as a registered architect, as well as doing practical experiments in low-cost housing, which took him to Mexico, Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and China.

(From www.witoldrybczynski.com)