Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (James A. Johnson Metro Series)
"Lang has become one of America's best commentators on the vast urban territory outside of the traditional city center." --Robert Bruegmann, professor of art history, architecture, and urban planning at the University of Illinios at Chicago and author of SPRAWL:  A COMPACT HISTORY"Boomburbsis one of the most significant contributions to contemporart metropolitan studies." --Jon Teaford, professor of history, Purdue University"This lively, original, and perceptive book enables us to see a new form of city where previous observers had seen only suburban sprawl." --Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture and Planning, University of Michigan