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1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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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. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
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, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democ. |
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
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Land use.
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Urban policy.
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City planning.
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Metropolitan areas.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns -- Growth.
(OCoLC)fst00861781
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City planning. (OCoLC)fst00862177
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Land use. (OCoLC)fst00991472
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Metropolitan areas. (OCoLC)fst01018849
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Urban policy. (OCoLC)fst01162489
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Steden.
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Voorsteden.
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Suburbanisatie.
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Overheidsbeleid.
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Sociale aspecten.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bruegmann, Robert. Sprawl. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 0226076903 9780226076904 (DLC) 2005007591 (OCoLC)58595512 |
| ISBN |
9780226076973 (electronic bk.) |
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0226076970 (electronic bk.) |
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