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Measures for urban sprawl in Europe: upper left the Dispersion of the built-up area (DIS), upper right the weighted urban proliferation (WUP). The term urban sprawl was often used in the letters between Lewis Mumford and Frederic J. Osborn, [17] firstly by Osborn in his 1941 letter to Mumford and later by Mumford, generally condemning the waste of agricultural land and landscape due to ...
In addition to writing the first argument against urban sprawl, MacKaye also authored two books, The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning and Expedition Nine: A Return to a Region. Thirteen of his essays were published in the collection From Geography to Geotechnics .
Anti-urbanism is hostility toward the city as opposed to the country. [1] It may may take the form a simple rejection of city life, or an urbicidal wish to destroy the city. [2] [3] Like other hostile attitudes, it may be an individual sentiment or a collective trope, sometimes evoked by the expression "urbophobia" [4] or "urbanophobia" [5] This trope can become politicized and thus influence ...
This week's newsletter is a response to a recent essay in The Federalist that makes a conservative case against New Urbanism and its "assault" on property rights and the single-family zoning ...
Sprawl significantly predicts chronic medical conditions and health-related quality of life, although it doesn't predict mental health disorders. [6] The American Journal of Public Health and the American Journal of Health Promotion, have both stated that there is a significant connection between sprawl, obesity , and hypertension .
Hendersonville's City Council heard from public on matters of urban sprawl, development and more July 17 during public hearing on Gen H plan.
He estimated that the fall-off in civic engagement after 1965 was 10 percent due to pressure of work and double-career families, 10 percent to suburbanization, commuting, and urban sprawl, 25 percent to the expansion of electronic entertainment (especially television), and 50 percent to generational change (although he estimated that the ...
Shoup’s central argument, published most expansively in his 700-page seminal work "The High Cost of Free Parking," was that everything that most people think about parking was wrong.