So What?
The contours of most metropolitan regions in the United States today were formed to a great extent by postwar growth. The same was true in parts of Europe and in Japan, where entire cities were reduced to rubble by the war and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Nonetheless, the metropolitan popul...
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| Published in | Laws of the Landscape p. 35 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Brookings Institution Press
01.04.1999
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | The contours of most metropolitan regions in the United States today were formed to a great extent by postwar growth. The same was true in parts of Europe and in Japan, where entire cities were reduced to rubble by the war and had to be rebuilt from the ground up. Nonetheless, the metropolitan population density of the United States is approximately one-fourth that of Germany, the European country whose urban areas were carpet bombed.¹ What difference does America’s extraordinary degree of dispersion make?
A widespread view among urbanists is that the American mode of low-density development is “inefficient.”² But if |
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| ISBN: | 0815760817 9780815760818 |