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128 p. col. ill. ; 18 cm. "Can you define edge node, boomburb, tower farm, big box, and parsley round the pig? Sprawl is hard to pin down and the terms change every day. This concise book defines the vocabulary of sprawl from alligator to zoomburb, illustrating fifty one colorful terms invented by real estate developers and designers to characterize contemporary building patterns. Sixty nine aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact of development and provide verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape. This "devil's dictionary" of American building accompanies a critique of metropolitan regions organized around unsustainable growth, where sprawling new areas of automobile oriented construction flourish as older neighborhoods are left to decline." -- Contents: Acknowledgements 4 -- Foreword by Armando Carbonell 5 -- I. Decoding Everyday American Landscapes: A Field Guide to Sprawl? 7 -- Sprawl Talk 8 -- What Causes Sprawl? 10 -- The War on Sprawl 12 -- Reading the Landscape from an Airplane 13 -- From Sprawl to Sustainable Landscapes 16 -- II. An Illustrated Vocabulary to Sprawl 17 -- Sources 120 -- Selected Bibliography 121 -- Index 127 -- Dolores Hayden ; with aerial photographs by Jim Wark. / Includes index and bibliographical references (p. 121-126). Cities and towns Growth Pictorial works Land use Planning Pictorial works HT321 H3856 2004 307.76 9780393731255 0393731251 pucpr 140916 20260202114608.0 eng