When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitan Fringe

by Tom Daniels

Strips of urban and suburban "fabric" have extended into the countryside, creating a ragged settlement pattern that blurs the distinction between rural, urban, and suburban. As traditional rural industries like farming, forestry, and mining rapidly give way to residential and commercial development, the land at the edges of developed areas -- the rural-urban fringe -- is becoming the middle landscape between city and countryside that the suburbs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559635975
• ISBN13: 9781559635974
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A thoughtful analysis of sprawl issues

I found this book to be a thorough and thoughtful analysis of suburban sprawl issues in America. Daniels is a fluid writer, and his work is very accessible. He is careful to identify terms that are relevent to a comprehensive understanding of sprawl, and does not promote ridiculous, hard-core left dramatic changes as the only solution. However, I would appreciate more perspective on what the actual housing needs of Americans are; he leaps to the conclusion (like so many) that sprawl is caused by the wealthiest citizens. Where, then, do the (dwindling) working and middle classes live? Do they not require homes and services?