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An edition of A Field Guide to Sprawl (2004)

A Field Guide to Sprawl

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"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.

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English
Pages
144

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Cover of: A Field Guide to Sprawl
A Field Guide to Sprawl
June 19, 2006, W. W. Norton
in English
Cover of: A Field Guide to Sprawl
A Field Guide to Sprawl
June 19, 2006, W. W. Norton
in English
Cover of: A Field Guide to Sprawl
A Field Guide to Sprawl
July 19, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company, W.W. Norton
in English
Cover of: A Field Guide to Sprawl
A Field Guide to Sprawl
July 19, 2004, W. W. Norton & Company
in English

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First Sentence

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

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Library of Congress
HT321 .H3856 2004, HT321.H3856 2004

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7454726M
ISBN 10
0393731251
ISBN 13
9780393731255
LCCN
2004041487
OCLC/WorldCat
54046420
Library Thing
176062
Goodreads
1390778

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