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Loading... A Field Guide to Sprawlby Dolores Hayden
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This books was both fun to look through and educative to read. Through the use of aerial photographs, it shows how the landscape in the United States has been changed through sprawl. Each photograph has a theme, such as privatopia, starter castle, logo building, car glut and the text amplifies the picture. This is well worth a read for any person interested in urban or regional planning. (  ) vpfluke | Mar 19, 2009 |  outofit | Oct 31, 2007 | Fantastic aerial photos of different types of sprawl along with bittersweet funny commentary and some valuable references. The idea is to encourage people to talk more about sprawl by popularizing a lexicon that can describe it. (  ) colinsky | Nov 18, 2006 | Small coffee-table format picture book. There is a 10-page introduction, which is excellent, then 51 vocabulary terms. Each vocab term is 2 pages - one page is an aerial example picture, the facing page is text describing the term. The terms are mostly pejorative (slang) and are critical of certain types of development. This is not "new" stuff many of these terms and criticisms go back to the 1940s. While some of the terms are obvious (strip malls, McMansions) much of it is not obvious and opens a whole new way of seeing why certain things are laid out the way they are. More so, it helps to predict how future development will happen based on current development patterns. Fascinating, brings order to chaos. (  ) Stbalbach | Jul 17, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0393731251, Hardcover)A visual lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America.Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among the dozens of zany terms invented by real estate developers and designers today to characterize land-use practices and the physical elements of sprawl. Sprawl in the environment, based on the metaphor of a person spread out, is hard to define. This concise book engages its meaning, explains common building patterns, and illustrates the visual culture of sprawl. Seventy-five stunning color aerial photographs, each paired with a definition, convey the impact of excessive development and provide the verbal and visual vocabulary needed by professionals, public officials, and citizens to critique uncontrolled growth in the American landscape. 75 color photographs. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:16 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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