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Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship - The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life (Paperback)
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Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship - The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life (Paperback)
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Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century
American life? That is a central question posed by critics of
suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of
the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of millions
have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few
decades. Americans find many of the more substantial criticisms of
sprawl easy to ignore because they often come across as snobbish in
tone. Yet as Thad Williamson explains, sprawl does create real,
measurable social problems. Utilizing a landmark 30,000-person
survey, he shows that sprawl fosters civic disengagement,
accentuates inequality, and negatively impacts the environment.
Yet, while he highlights the deleterious effects of sprawl on civic
life in America, he is also evenhanded. He does not dismiss the
pastoral, homeowning ideal that is at the root of sprawl, and is
sympathetic to the vast numbers of Americans who very clearly
prefer it. Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship is not only be the most
comprehensive work in print on the subject, it will be the first to
offer an empirically rigorous critique of the most popular form of
living in America today.
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