Sprawl : a compact history /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bruegmann, Robert (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Άγνωστο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
• Θέματα: 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.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.