Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

by Benjamin Ross

Book Overview

More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason.

As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199360146
• ISBN13: 9780199360147
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"