Sprawl : a compact history /

• Main Author: Bruegmann, Robert (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• Subjects: Πόλεις και κωμοπόλεις > Ανάπτυξη; Γη; Αστική πολιτική; Πολεοδομία

 Stripping urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Robert Breugemann offers a new vision of the city and its growth, leading to the conclusion that, in its complexity and constant change, the city is a wonderful work of mankind. 

 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.