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Dead end : suburban sprawl and the rebirth of American urbanism / Benjamin Ross.

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"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It ha...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Ross, Benjamin (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Suburbs > United States.
Cities and towns > United States > Growth.
Urbanization > United States.
Traffic flow > United States.
Land use > United States > Planning.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Land use > Planning.
Suburbs.
Traffic flow.
Urbanization.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Escape from the suburbs
  • Part I
  • Getting Hooked
  • Chapter 1
  • The strange birth of suburbia
  • Chapter 2
  • Planners and embalmers
  • Chapter 3
  • Government-sponsored sprawl
  • Chapter 4
  • Ticky-tacky boxes
  • Chapter 5
  • Jane Jacobs vs. the planners
  • Chapter 6
  • Saving the city
  • Chapter 7
  • The age of the nimby
  • Part II
  • The Sprawl Addiction
  • Chapter 8
  • Spreading like cancer
  • Chapter 9
  • The war of greed against snobbery
  • Chapter 10
  • A new thirst for city life
  • Chapter 11
  • Backlash from the right
  • Chapter 12
  • The language of land use
  • Part III
  • How to Kick the Habit
  • Chapter 13
  • Struggles for smart growth
  • Chapter 14
  • Democratic urbanism
  • Chapter 15
  • Affordable housing in an ownership economy
  • Chapter 16
  • On track toward livable cities
  • Afterword.

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