A Field Guide to Sprawl

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Author

Dolores Hayden

Contributions

Jim Wark (Photographer) - Contributor

Publication

2004-07-19 - W. W. Norton & Company

Language

English

Word Count

36,000 words, Guess

Page Count

144 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL7454726M
ISBN-139780393731255
ISBN-100393731251
OCLC Control Number54046420
OCLC Control Numberfieldguidetospra0000hayd

and 3 more

Library of Congress Control Number2004041487
Goodreads1390778
LibraryThing176062

Classifications

LCCHT321 .H3856 2004

Description

"Can you define edge node, boomburb, tower farm, big box, and parsley round the pig? Sprawl is hard to pin down and the terms change every day. This concise book defines the vocabulary of sprawl from alligator to zoomburb, illustrating fifty-one colorful terms invented by real estate developers and designers to characterize contemporary building patterns. Sixty-nine aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact of development and provide verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape. This "devil's dictionary" of American building accompanies a critique of metropolitan regions organized around unsustainable growth, where sprawling new areas of automobile-oriented construction flourish as older neighborhoods are left to decline."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

Words such as city, suburb, and countryside no longer capture the reality of real estate development in the United States.

Excerpt