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Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism


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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 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. Ross finds that sprawl is much more than bad architecture and sloppy planning. Its roots are historical, sociological, and economic. He uses these insights to lay out a practical strategy for change, honed by his experience leading the largest grass-roots mass transit advocacy organization in the United States. The problems of smart growth, sustainability, transportation, and affordable housing, he argues, are intertwined and must be solved as a whole. The two keys to creating better places to live are expansion of rail transit and a more genuinely democratic oversight of land use.Dead End is, ultimately, about the places where we live our lives. Both an engaging history of suburbia and an invaluable guide for today's urbanist, it will serve as a primer for anyone interested in how Americans actually live.

Table of Contents:
Introduction - Escape from the suburbs Part I - Getting Hooked Chapter 1 - The strange birth of suburbia Chapter 2 - Planners and embalmers Chapter 3 - Government-sponsored sprawl Chapter 4 - Ticky-tacky boxes Chapter 5 - Jane Jacobs vs. the planners Chapter 6 - Saving the city Chapter 7 - The age of the nimby Part II - The Sprawl Addiction Chapter 8 - Spreading like cancer Chapter 9 - The war of greed against snobbery Chapter 10 - A new thirst for city life Chapter 11 - Backlash from the right Chapter 12 - The language of land use Part III - How to Kick the Habit Chapter 13 - Struggles for smart growth Chapter 14 - Democratic urbanism Chapter 15 - Affordable housing in an ownership economy Chapter 16 - On track toward livable cities Afterword

About the Author :
Benjamin Ross was president of Maryland's Action Committee for Transit for 15 years, which grew under his leadership into the nation's largest grass-roots transit advocacy group. He is a consultant on environmental problems and served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and EPA Science Advisory Board. He writes frequently on political and social topics in Dissent Magazine and is the author of The Polluters: The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment.

Review :
"I've studied a lot of books on New Urbanism. Every once and a long while one of them opens my eyes to an entirely new way of thinking. Such is Dead End." --Robert Steuteville, Better! Cities & Towns "Ben Ross' Dead End is a highly personal account of a larger journey that we are embarked on as a nation -- from sprawl to walkable communities, from anoxic, sterile neighborhoods to vibrant, transit-served urban areas that are the wellspring of innovation, economic development and cultural richness." --John Porcari, Former Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Transportation "Ben Ross paints the big picture of the battle between sprawl and community from the historic perspective, to the current conflicts to a vision of better land use process. Always focused on the human perspective with subjects as diverse as Jane Jacobs and Pete Seeger to Snob Zoning and Agenda 21, Dead End is an exciting, easy read." --Parris N. Glendening, President, Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute, and former Governor of Maryland (1995-2003) "This impressively researched and documented history explains the huge pressures for maintaining a status quo that supports sprawl and is unfriendly to walkable cities. Ross argues convincingly that rail transit is 'the political and mental key that opens the door to urban change.'" --Ross Capon, President & CEO, National Association of Railroad Passengers "...exceedingly readable and thoroughly engaging. This fantastic book effectively channels the spirit of Jane Jacobs in both erudition and dedication to the life of cities in the US. Highly recommended." --CHOICE


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199360147
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 548 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199360146
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
  • Width: 165 mm


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