Sprawl : a compact history / Robert Bruegmann.

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As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bruegmann, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Growth.
Land use.
Urban policy.
City planning.
Metropolitan areas.
metropolitan areas.
urban sprawl.
suburban growth.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Defining Sprawl
  • Early sprawl
  • Sprawl in the interwar boom years
  • Sprawl in the Postwar boom years
  • Sprawl since the 1970s
  • The causes of sprawl
  • Early anti-sprawl arguments
  • The first anti-sprawl campaign: Britain in the 1920s
  • The second anti-sprawl campaign: The United States in the postwar years
  • The third anti-sprawl campaign: since the 1970s
  • Early remedies: from anti-blight to anti-sprawl
  • Postwar anti-sprawl remedies
  • Anti-sprawl remedies since the 1970s.

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