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Twentieth Century Sprawl
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Author : Owen D. Gutfreund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Twentieth Century Sprawl written by Owen D. Gutfreund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Cities and towns categories.
A groundbreaking study of how urban sprawl changed the face of the cities & towns in America.
20th Century Sprawl
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Author : Owen D. Gutfreund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
20th Century Sprawl written by Owen D. Gutfreund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Automobile industry and trade categories.
Twentieth Century Sprawl
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Author : Owen D. Gutfreund
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-05-01
Twentieth Century Sprawl written by Owen D. Gutfreund and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-01 with History categories.
Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund uses a "follow the money" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or social equity. The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and culture. Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee. Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America's cities and towns. Based on original research and vividly written, Twentieth-Century Sprawl brings to light the benefits and consequences of the spread of American highways and makes a major contribution to our understanding of issues that still plague our cities and suburbs today.
The New Urbanism Repairing Twentieth Century Suburban Sprawl With Nineteenth Century Townmaking Principles
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Author : Melani L. Motzkus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The New Urbanism Repairing Twentieth Century Suburban Sprawl With Nineteenth Century Townmaking Principles written by Melani L. Motzkus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Community life categories.
20th Century Sprawl
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Author : Owen D. Gutfreund
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
20th Century Sprawl written by Owen D. Gutfreund and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Automobile industry and trade categories.
Sprawltown
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Author : Richard Ingersoll
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2012-03-20
Sprawltown written by Richard Ingersoll and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-20 with Architecture categories.
Sprawl. The word calls to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless housing developments. In Sprawltown, architectural historian Richard Ingersoll makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism rather than simply being criticized and condemned. In five thought-provoking chapters, covering topics such as tourism, film, and the automobile, Ingersoll takes the position that any solution to the problems of sprawl—including pressing issues like resource use and energy waste—must take into consideration its undeniable success as a social milieu. No screed against the suburb, this book offers a more sophisticated and nuanced view of the way we think about its rapid development and growth.
Sprawl
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Author : Robert Bruegmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
Sprawl written by Robert Bruegmann and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with History categories.
As 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
The 20th Century American City
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Author : Jon C. Teaford
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-09-11
The 20th Century American City written by Jon C. Teaford and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-11 with Social Science categories.
An updated edition of the essential text from “a respected urban historian” (Annals of Iowa). Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the nation. Race, ethnicity, and class splintered the metropolis both literally and figuratively, thwarting efforts to create a harmonious whole. The urban landscape revealed what was right—and wrong—with both the country and its citizens’ way of life. In this thoroughly revised edition of his highly acclaimed book, Jon C. Teaford updates the story of urban America by expanding his discussion to cover the end of the twentieth century and the first years of the next millennium. A new chapter on urban revival initiatives at the close of the century focuses on the fight over suburban sprawl as well as the mixed success of reimagining historic urban cores as hip new residential and cultural hubs. The book also explores the effects of the late-century immigration boom from Latin America and Asia, which has complicated the metropolitan ethnic portrait. Drawing on wide-ranging primary and secondary sources, Teaford describes the complex social, political, economic, and physical development of US urban areas over the course of the long twentieth century. Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America’s persistent struggle for a better city.
Urban Sprawl Global Warming And The Empire Of Capital
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Author : George A. Gonzalez
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2009-03-05
Urban Sprawl Global Warming And The Empire Of Capital written by George A. Gonzalez and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with Political Science categories.
Argues that the United States refuses to address global warming because of the reliance of the American economy on urban sprawl.
The Twentieth Century American City
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Author : Jon C. Teaford
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2016-09-15
The Twentieth Century American City written by Jon C. Teaford and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with History categories.
Touching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.