Review Essay: Producing the North American Metropolitan Landscape ROBERT D. BULLARD, GLENN S. JOHNSON, AND ANGEL O. TORRES, eds., Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2000, pp. xiii, 236, tables, notes, index, $30.00 paper. CATHERINE GUDIS, Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. viii, 333, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index, $22.00 paper. OWEN D. GUTFREUND, Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape. New York: Oxford U

Several books are analyzed, including the following: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres' Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta; Catherine Gudis' Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl:...

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Published inJournal of Urban History Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 695 - 703
Main Author Seligman, Amanda I.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.05.2008
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
20th century
Automobiles
Billboards
Conformity
Landscape ecology
Local politics
Metropolitan areas
Motor cars
Nonfiction
Politics
Race
Roads & highways
Suburban areas
Urban history
Urban planning
Urbanism
Urbanization
Canada
Atlanta Georgia
United States > US
Detroit Michigan
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Summary:Several books are analyzed, including the following: Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres' Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta; Catherine Gudis' Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape; and Richard Harris' Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960. There are three other books under discussion by Amy Maria Kenyon, Douglas Kneer and Robert Lewis (ed.).
ISSN:0096-1442
1552-6771
DOI:10.1177/0096144207312824