Sprawl a compact history / [electronic resource] :
Robert Bruegmann.
- University of Chicago Press, c2005.
- 1 online resource (301 p.) : ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-280) and index.
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.
Cities and towns--Growth. Land use. Urban policy. City planning. Metropolitan areas. Villes--Croissance. Sol, Utilisation du. Politique urbaine. Agglomérations urbaines. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban. Steden. Voorsteden. Suburbanisatie. Overheidsbeleid. Sociale aspecten.