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9781568985664

Sprawltown

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568985664

  • ISBN10:

    1568985665

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-13
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr
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Summary

Sprawl. The word evokes troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development and the conversion of farmland to soulless housing. In five thought-provoking chapters, architectural historian Richard Ingersoll makes the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that should be recognized as a new form of urbanism rather than being condemned. No creed against the suburb, this book offers a more nuanced view of the way we think about its rapid growth.

Author Biography

Richard Ingersoll teaches architectural history and urban design at Syracuse University in Florence and the Facolta' di Architettura in Ferrara.

Table of Contents

Preface : sprawltown : looking for the city on its edges
Changing weather : a new metaphor for the cityp. 1
Postcard city : the symmetry between tourism and terrorismp. 23
Jump-cut urbanism : cinema, the automobile, and the new code of urban perceptionp. 71
Infrastructure as art : toward urban ready-madesp. 99
The ecology question : sprawltown as a second naturep. 127
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