Bruegmann's Soft Spot For Sprawl

Alex Marshall rebuts sprawl arguments posited by Robert Bruegmann's "Sprawl: A Compact History".

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October 18, 2006, 9:00 AM PDT

By Christian Madera @http://www.twitter.com/cpmadera

"...Bruegmann is essentially wrong in his overall thesis, which is that sprawl is mostly a product of people buying what they want and therefore a good thing. In Bruegmann's view, sprawl has given the middle class the type of large homes that only the aristocracy once enjoyed. Side effects such as loss of open space or traffic congestion are explained away, and sprawl critics are called cultural elitists."

Thanks to Jon Cecil, AICP

FULL STORY: Soft on Sprawl

Friday, October 13, 2006 in Governing Magazine

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