Guides: APS 341 Urban Sociology: Urban sprawl

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Rethinking Urban Sprawl: Moving Towards Sustainable Cities by OECD Publishing Staff
Publication Date: 2018-06-18

This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences. This perspective, which is based on the multi-dimensionality of urban sprawl, sets the foundations for the construction of new indicators to measure the various facets of urban sprawl. The report uses new datasets to compute these indicators for more than 1100 urban areas in 29 OECD countries over the period 1990-2014.
Global Suburbs : urban sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro by Lawrence Herzog
Publication Date: 2014-07-17

This book offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere. American suburban sprawl has created a giant human habitat stretching from Las Vegas to San Diego, and from Mexico to Brazil, presented here in a clear and comprehensive style with in depth descriptions and images. Challenging the ecological problems that stem from these flawed suburban developments, Herzog targets an often overlooked and potentially disastrous global shift in urban development. This book will give depth to courses on suburbs, development, urban studies, and the environment.
Suburban Remix: creating the next generation of urban places by Jason Lee Beske (Editor); David Debs Dixon (Editor)
Publication Date: 2018-02-01

Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live, work, play, and invest. The case studies and analyses show how compact new urban places are already being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis. Above all, Suburban Remix shows that suburbs can evolve and thrive by investing in the methods and approaches used successfully in cities.
Suburban Constellations : governance, land and infrastructure in the 21st century by Roger Keil (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013-10-31

In a world of cities, suburbanisation is the most visible and pervasive phenomenon. Global sprawl engulfs us but it does so in remarkably differentiated ways. The high rise housing estates around many European and Canadian cities, the belts and wedges of squatter settlements in the global south, the burgeoning megacity peripheries between Istanbul and Shanghai and the technopoles and edge cities in all corners of the world are all part of a pervasive trend towards global suburbanisms. Suburban Constellations provides a first account of this global development.
City on a Hill by Alex Krieger
Publication Date: 2019-10-29

From the pilgrims to Las Vegas, hippie communes to the smart city, utopianism has shaped American landscapes. The Puritan small town was the New Jerusalem. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of rational farm grids. Reformers tackled slums through crusades of civic architecture. To understand American space, Alex Krieger looks to the drama of utopian ideals.

Sprawl Costs: economic impacts of unchecked development by Robert W. Burchell
Publication Date: 2005-01-01

This book looks at a 1996 study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of different forms of growth. It analyzes the extent of sprawl, define an alternative, more compact form of growth, project the magnitude and location of future growth, and compare what the total costs of those two forms of growth would be if each was applied throughout the nation. They analyze the likely effects of continued sprawl, consider policy options, and discuss examples of how more compact growth would compare with sprawl in particular regions, and evaluate if compact growth is likely to produce the benefits claimed by its advocates.
Critique of Urbanization by Neil Brenner
Publication Date: 2017

Urbanization is transforming the planet, within and beyond cities, at all spatial scales. Neil Brenner mobilizes the tools of critical urban theory to deconstruct some of the dominant urban discourses of our time, which naturalize, and depoliticize, the enclosures, exclusions, injustices and irrationalities of neoliberal urbanism. Brenner advocates a constant reinvention of the framing categories, methods and assumptions of critical urban theory in relation to the rapidly mutating geographies of capitalist urbanization.
Shaping the metropolis : institutions and urbanization in the United States and Canada by Zack Taylor
Publication Date: 2019

Zack Taylor compares the historical development of American and Canadian urban governance, both at the national level and through specific metropolitan case studies. Shaping the Metropolis shows that urban governance encompasses far more than local government, and that states and provinces have always played a central role in responding to urban policy challenges and will continue to do so in the future.
Urbanization: global trends, role of climate change and effects on biodiversity by Harold J. Kauffman
Publication Date: 2014-01-01

Urbanization is caused by migration. However, an essential difference exists between migration in the past and that in the present. This book focuses on several topics that include a comparison between an informational city and a smart city; urbanization and human impact on biodiversity in Water's Edge Public Spaces (WEPS); a mathematical- modeling approach to urbanization caused by migration; sustaining urbanization in a developing economy; and urbanization and cardiomyopathy vulnerability in an African male cohort.
Shape of the Suburbs: understanding Toronto's sprawl by John Sewell
Publication Date: 2009-01-01

John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.