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Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than everinto "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions. We cling to the notion of safer neighborhoods and better schools, but what we get, argues Anthony Flint, is long commutes, crushing gas prices and higher taxesand a landscape of strip malls and office parks badly in need of a makeover. This Land tells the untold story of development in Americahow the landscape is shaped by a furious clash of political, economic and cultural forces. It is the story of burgeoning anti-sprawl movement, a 1960s-style revolution of New Urbanism, smart growth, and green building. And it is the story of landowners fighting back on the basis of property rights, with free-market libertarians, homebuilders, road pavers, financial institutions, and even the lawn-care industry right alongside them. The subdivisions and extra-wide roadways are encroaching into the wetlands of Florida, ranchlands in Texas, and the desert outside Phoenix and Las Vegas. But with up to 120 million more people in the country by 2050, will the spread-out pattern cave in on itself? Could Americans embrace a new approac

Who reads This Land : The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America?

Author

Anthony Flint; Ebrary, Inc

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801884191

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Nature, Sociology

Rating

3.67 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14