The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate

by Oliver Gillham

One of the great debates of our time concerns the predominant form of land use in America today -- the all too familiar pattern of commercial and residential development known as sprawl. But what do we really know about sprawl? Do we know what it is? Where did it come from? Is it really so bad? If so, what are the alternatives? Can anything be done to make it better? The Limitless City offers an accessible examination of those and related questions. Oliver Gillham, an architect and planner with more than twenty-five years of experience in the field, considers the history and development of sprawl and examines current debates about the issue. The

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

328 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ted · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was checked out from the GVSU library for my capstone term paper about New Urbanism and isomorphism. The book was written after the 9/11 attacks and makes mention to them throughout. But that really represented the drawback of the book: how outdated it was. At the time, yes, it was probably a better source of information, but so much has happened in the past 15+ years that some of these theories need refining or are based on a reality that was uncertain at the time.

[Sonay Aykan · Rating 2 out of 5]

pretty shallow study on urbanism and suburban development. could be a good introductory book for undergrad arch students but there are alot of information missing.