Main entry:

Ingersoll, Richard.

Title & Author:

Sprawltown : looking for the city on its edges / Richard Ingersoll.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2006.

Description:

viii, 182 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
Preface : sprawltown : looking for the city on its edges -- Changing weather : a new metaphor for the city -- Postcard city : the symmetry between tourism and terrorism -- Jump-cut urbanism : cinema, the automobile, and the new code of urban perception -- Infrastructure as art : toward urban ready-mades -- The ecology question : sprawltown as a second nature.

Summary:

"The word "sprawl" brings to mind a host of troublesome issues such as city flight, runaway suburban development, and the conversion of farmland to soulless housing developments. In Sprawltown, Richard Ingersoll brings a nuanced look at this popular topic, making the surprising claim that sprawl is an inevitable reality of modern life that, rather than being quickly condemned, should be addressed more thoughtfully and recognized as its own new form of urbanism."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Cover
Table of contents
cover art

ISBN:

1568985665 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781568985664

Subject:

Cities and towns Growth.
City planning.
Regional planning.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City and town life.
City Planning
Urban sprawl.
Urban form.
Villes Croissance.
Vie urbaine.
Urbanisme.
Écologie urbaine.
Aménagement du territoire.
regional planning.
urban environments.
urban planning.
Stadtrand
Zersiedlung

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245036
Call No.: BIB 174686
Status: Available