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Robert Bruegmann

Sprawl

A Compact History

306 pages, 22 halftones, 3 line drawings, 5 maps, 1 table  6 x 9  © 2005

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ISBN: 9780226076904   Published November 2005

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Introduction
PART 1 - sprawl across the centuries
1. Defining Sprawl
2. Early Sprawl
3. Sprawl in the Interwar Boom Years
4. Sprawl in the Postwar Boom Years
5. Sprawl since the 1970s
6. The Causes of Sprawl
PART 2 - the diagnosis: three campaigns against sprawl
7. Early Anti-sprawl Arguments
8. The First Anti-sprawl Campaign: Britain in the Interwar Years
9. The Second Anti-sprawl Campaign: The United States in the Postwar Years
10. The Third Anti-sprawl Campaign: Since the 1970s
PART 3 - the prescription: remedies for sprawl
11. Early Remedies: From Anti-blight to Anti-sprawl
12. Postwar Anti-sprawl Remedies
13. Anti-sprawl Remedies since the 1970s
Some Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Subjects



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