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05.05: Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
2014-04-15 22:34:16| Powells Books Events Calendar
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 (Oxford) traces how the ideal of a safe, green, orderly retreat where hardworking members of the middle class could raise their children away from the city mutated into the McMansion and strip mall–ridden suburbs of today. This event is sponsored by 1000 Friends of Oregon.
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