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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
Scribner
April 2007
On Sale: April 17, 2007
320 pages ISBN: 0743235967 EAN: 9780743235969 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A
Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New
Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural
Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New
Daleville, it was only 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
everyone involved in the transformation of this land -- from
the developers, to the community leaders whose approvals
they needed, to the home builders and sewage experts and,
ultimately, the first families who moved in.
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