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008			01201002005 iluab b 001 0 eng
020			_a0226076903 (cloth : alk. paper) _c11.56
020			_a9780226076911
020			_a978226076911
040			_apucpr _beng _cpucpr _dpucpr _erda
041			_aspa
049			_aCARIBET
050			_aHT371 _bB74 2005
090			_aHT371 _bB74 2005
100	1		_aBruegmann, Robert. _9205281
245	1	0	_aSprawl : _ba compact history. / _cRobert Bruegmann. _htxt
264			_aChicago : _bThe University of Chicago Press , _c2005.
300			_a301 p. _bill. ; maps ; _c24 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediaded _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aIndex
504			_aBibliography
505			_aContents: Introduction I -- Part 1 sprawl across the centuries : 1 Defining Sprawl 17 -- 2 Early Sprawl 21 -- 3 Sprawl in the Interwar Boom Years 33 -- 4 Sprawl in the Postwar Boom Years 42 -- 5 Sprawl since the 1970s 51 -- 6 The Causes of Sprawl 96 -- Part 2 the diagnosis : three campaigns against sprawl : 7 Early Anti sprawl Arguments 115 -- 8 The First Anti Sprawl Campaign : Britain in the 1920s 117 -- 9 The Second Anti sprawl Campaign : The United States in the Postwar Year 121 -- 10 The Third Anti sprawl Campaign : Since the 1970s 137 -- Part 3 the prescription : remedies for sprawl : 11 Earl Remedies : From Anti blight to Anti sprawl 169 -- 12 Postwar Anti sprawl Remedies 173 -- 13 Anti sprawl Remedies since the 1970s 199 -- Some Conclusions 220 -- Acknowledgments 226 -- Notes 231 -- Bibliography Essay 227 -- Index 281 --
520			_aAs 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 democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his incisive history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful --
590			_aWorldwide, Jul/24/06, 2007-034.
650		0	_aCities and towns _xGrowth _973674 _2Local
650		0	_aMetropolitan areas _9135769 _2Local _xHistory _y20th century
650		0	_aCity planning _973701 _2Local
650		0	_aUrban policy _9183430 _2Local
650		0	_aLand use _9122763 _2Local
650		0	_aDemocratization _985485
650		0	_aEconomic development _990010
650		0	_aUrban sprawl _9302893
942			_2lcc _c6 _hHT371 _kGeneral _mB74 2005
999			_c214142 _d214142