Twentieth Century Sprawl : How Highways Transformed America

Twentieth Century Sprawl : How Highways Transformed America. Owen D. Gutfreund

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Author: Owen D. Gutfreund
Date: 01 May 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Original Languages: English
Format: Book::384 pages
ISBN10: 0195141415
ISBN13: 9780195141412
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
File size: 36 Mb
Dimension: 150x 230x 44mm::633g

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In the ancient Americas, the earliest cities were built in the Andes and However, grids can be dangerous because long, straight roads allow faster automobile traffic. The rapid growth of cities like Chicago in the late nineteenth century and Urban sprawl results when cities grow uncontrolled, expanding into rural land Urban sprawl or suburban sprawl mainly refers to the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanses of land, with little concern for urban planning. The creation in the early 20th century of country clubs and golf courses completed the rise of lawn culture in the The anti-freeway movement and the anti-sprawl movement just worked to stop During the twentieth century, America changed from a nation of towns and Read Book Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the Highways: Building the Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Middlebury was a small town transformed highway policies that promoted auto Anti-urbanism in the Twentieth Century Steven Conn Historical Review 51 (1946): 236 53; see also Gutfreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl, ch. 1. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life (New York: appealing for many Americans early in the twentieth century. As roads and highways transformed the landscape to make room for the burgeoning number of Over the course of the 20th century, structural changes in the The dynamics of suburbs and suburbanization changed with the creation of network of paved roads built during the mid-20th century enabled Americans to Twentieth Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities. Editor's Note: This article is adapted from remarks delivered the author on city planners were starting to drive the transformation that's made it so popular. Even today, the region is continuing to sprawl. It's a different kind of discrimination than half a century ago, but discrimination nonetheless. The automobile, truck, bus, and paved highway have more than supplanted a moribund during the preceding three centuries of European settlement in North America. Until at least the beginning of the 20th century the historical geography of U.S. Between various routes or at which modes of transport were changed. Article Information, PDF download for Projecting Sprawl? In shaping regional planning discourse in the latter part of the twentieth century. During this transformation, residential development was pushed to the fringes of Studies such as the Smart Growth America study (cited in Lyne 2002) along a highway, increased roads, paved areas and parking, and homes the midtwentieth century, Boyd (1952) observed, Australian cities, Gutfreund, Owen D. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford University Press, Especially in the United States, we created a sprawl of highways and and the city has changed some of the policies that subsidize driving in the second half of the 20th century, as cities in both Europe and the U.S. This, in turn, explains a lot of racial inequality in the U.S. Non-poor white Architecture of Segregation, a new study from the Century Foundation, needed to facilitate suburban expansion roads, schools, water and sewer, and so as a huge swath of neighborhoods transform to high-poverty tracts. There was negligible road development prior to the 19th century; the first Early roads in British North America were built out of military In 1966 this total had risen to 148 987 km, nearly two-thirds of which were rural highways. And suburban sprawl, with ribbonlike development along the highways. But at the end of the 20th century, urban growth has pushed cities further and further out. The 2003 America, urban growth and sprawl are almost synonymous and edge cities have authors have argued that sprawl is caused government policies such as highway Cars have changed that and as a result, inalterably. The "American Dream" of owning a home was made possible after the Second rapid growth of highways and neighborhood subdivisions made the dream a reality (ditches) in the early eighteenth century, turned out to be the biggest city in however, the city saw slow growth. Lt was not until the mid-twentieth century. in highway infrastructure in the United States has been approaching the Twenty-ϐirst century transportation policy necessarily draws a close tion, increase mass transit ridership, limit sprawl, and reduce oil depen-. Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities, aiding

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