Sprawl and suburbia / William S. Saunders, editor ; introduction by Robert Fishman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, William S.

Series:

Harvard design magazine readers ; 2.

Harvard design magazine readers ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--United States--Growth.

Cities and towns.

City planning--United States.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Summary: Sprawl and Suburbia brings together some of the foremost thinkers in the field and calls for architects, urban planners, and landscape designers to work at mitigating the impact of sprawl and improving the built environment as a whole.

Contents:

Contents: Preface : Will sprawl produce its own demise? / William S. Saunders

Introduction : Beyond sprawl / Robert Fishman

Seventy-five percent : the next big architectural project / Ellen Dunham-Jones

The new urbanism and the communitarian trap : on social problems and the false hope of design / David Harvey

Ozzie and Harriet in hell : on the decline of inner suburbs / Mike Davis

Suburbia and its discontents : notes from the sprawl debate / Matthew J. Kiefer

The costs-and benefits?-of sprawl / Alex Krieger

Smart growth in Atlanta : a response to Krieger and Kiefer / Ellen Dunham-Jones

Diversity by law : on inclusionary zoning and housing / Jerold S. Kayden

The spectacle of ordinary building / Mitchell Schwarzer

Privatized lives : on the embattled 'burbs / James S. Russell

Duct tape nation : land use, the fear factor and the new unilateralism / Andrew Ross

Retro urbanism : on the once and future TOD / Peter Hall.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8166-9819-8

OCLC:

476095883