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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 103.3 | The History Cooperative
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September, 2007
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Sprawl
A Compact History

By Robert Bruegmann
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 301. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $27.50.)

Many decry urban sprawl, while a much smaller number of equally vocal advocates argue that sprawl is not really a problem at all. Robert Bruegmann contributes to this debate by looking at sprawl in an historical context. The book addresses the issue from three perspectives, considering the patterns of urban development that constitute sprawl, the development of anti-sprawl movements, and attempts to deal with sprawl. 1
      Bruegmann makes a convincing argument that sprawl has been a persistent feature of urban development throughout history. Defining sprawl as unplanned, low-density, scattered urban development, he describes sprawl in times and places ranging from ancient Rome and seventeenthcentury London to the present. While many consider sprawl as a new problem arising in recent decades in the United States, he describes its occurrence early in the last century, explaining that it probably reached its peak (in terms of the low density of development) in the period from 1930 through 1970. . . .
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