Sprawl
Subtitle: a compact history
By: Robert Bruegmann.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Growth; Land use; Urban policy; City planning; Metropolitan areas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining Sprawl; title: Early sprawl; title: Sprawl in the interwar boom years; title: Sprawl in the Postwar boom years; title: Sprawl since the 1970s; title: The causes of sprawl; title: Early anti-sprawl arguments; title: The first anti-sprawl campaign: Britain in the 1920s; title: The second anti-sprawl campaign: The United States in the postwar years; title: The third anti-sprawl campaign: since the 1970s; title: Early remedies: from anti-blight to anti-sprawl; title: Postwar anti-sprawl remedies; title: Anti-sprawl remedies since the 1970s.