Sprawl : a compact history
Title:
Sprawl : a compact history
Author:
Bruegmann, Robert.
ISBN:
9780226076904
9780226076911
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
Physical Description:
301 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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.
Abstract:
Stripping urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Robert Breugemann offers a new vision of the city and its growth, leading to the conclusion that, in its complexity and constant change, the city is a wonderful work of mankind.
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