Sprawl : a compact history /
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,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Defining Sprawl
- Early sprawl
- Sprawl in the interwar boom years
- Sprawl in the Postwar boom years
- Sprawl since the 1970s
- The causes of sprawl
- Early anti-sprawl arguments
- The first anti-sprawl campaign: Britain in the 1920s
- The second anti-sprawl campaign: The United States in the postwar years
- The third anti-sprawl campaign: since the 1970s
- Early remedies: from anti-blight to anti-sprawl
- Postwar anti-sprawl remedies
- Anti-sprawl remedies since the 1970s.