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sprawl: a standalone construct

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sprawl1 CONSTRUCTUrban sprawlDUANY ET AL. · SUBURBAN NATION

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Urban planning

Low-density, car-dependent outward growth

In urban planning, sprawl is low-density, automobile-dependent development that spreads outward from cities in separated, single-use pods: housing tracts, office parks, and shopping strips linked only by roads. Duany, Plater-Zyberk, and Speck's Suburban Nation diagnoses this pattern and its costs and argues for compact, mixed-use, walkable alternatives. The referent is a dispersed, segregated-use pattern of metropolitan growth, read through density, land consumption, and car dependence.[1]

Unit
The degree of low-density, single-use, car-dependent outward urban growth
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Indexed by residential density, land consumed per capita, segregation of land uses, and automobile dependence

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References

  1. Duany, A., Plater-Zyberk, E., & Speck, J. (2000). Suburban nation: The rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream. North Point Press. ISBN 9780865477506

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