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Author Bruegmann, Robert.

Title Sprawl : a compact history / Robert Bruegmann.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2005]
©2005

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  307.76 B889S    Check Shelf
Description 301 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-280) and index.
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.
Subject Cities and towns -- Growth.
Land use.
Urban policy.
City planning.
Metropolitan areas.
ISBN 0226076903 cloth alkaline paper
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