Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town: Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway

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When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it used to be just a developer’s idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the building of this residential subdivision — from the developers to the township leaders, whose approval they needed, to the home builders and engineers and, in the end, the first families who moved in.

All the time eloquent and illuminating, the award-winning writer of Now I Take a seat Me Down looks at this “neotraditional” project, with its houses built close together to encourage a sense of intimacy and community, and explains the trends in American domestic architecture — from where we place our kitchens and fences to why our bathrooms get larger once a year.

Last Harvest used to be voted one of the vital ten best books of 2008 by the editors of Planetizen, and as Publishers Weekly said, “Rybczynski provides historical and cultural perspectives in a style harking back to Malcolm Gladwell, debunking the myth of urban sprawl and explaining American homeowners’ preference for single-circle of relatives dwellings.”

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