LEADER 04334nam 22006374a 450 001 9910822876703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-95927-8 010 $a9786611959272 010 $a0-226-07697-0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226076973 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578486 035 $a(EBL)408469 035 $a(OCoLC)436148440 035 $a(DE-B1597)523468 035 $a(OCoLC)781254205 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226076973 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408469 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266033 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195927 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578486 100 $a20050317d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSprawl $ea compact history /$fRobert Bruegmann 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (330 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-07690-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART 1. Sprawl Across the Centuries -- $tPART 2. The Diagnosis: Three Campaigns Against Sprawl -- $tPAR T 3. The Prescription: Remedies for Sprawl -- $tSome Conclusions -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliographic Essay -- $tIndex 330 $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. The first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that "in its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind." "Largely missing from this debate [over sprawl] has been a sound and reasoned history of this pattern of living. With Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl: A Compact History, we now have one. What a pleasure it is: well-written, accessible and eager to challenge the current cant about sprawl."-Joel Kotkin, The Wall Street Journal "There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book."-Witold Rybczynski, Slate 606 $aCities and towns$xGrowth 606 $aLand use 606 $aUrban policy 606 $aCity planning 606 $aMetropolitan areas 615 0$aCities and towns$xGrowth. 615 0$aLand use. 615 0$aUrban policy. 615 0$aCity planning. 615 0$aMetropolitan areas. 676 $a307.76 700 $aBruegmann$b Robert$0791046 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822876703321 996 $aSprawl$93948873 997 $aUNINA