There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book. — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
“It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...” — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms… — Carolyn Hart Copy Share Image
“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from… — Avi Friedman Copy Share Image
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. "It's not like I'm using," Case heard… — William Gibson - Neuromancer Copy Share Image
I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What happens under the rule of specialization is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and less structure.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Horizontal and vertical sprawl... are the dinosaurs of an ending fossil-fuel age of synthetic culture. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
“The urban sprawl of squat earthen buildings trailed into the woods, layered, unobtrusive, camouflaged by nature, inadvertent interruptions to the greenways. The” — Maurice Broaddus Copy Share Image
“The activities of automobile manufacturers, commercial real estate developers, and the federal government have been far more important in determining patterns of… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
The more you densify a city, the more congestion will increase, however technology changes... cities so packed that they will no longer… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights… — Tony Hiss Copy Share Image
“There is currently more sprawl covering American soil than was ever intended by its inventors. While there are some people who truly… — Andres Duany Copy Share Image
“In 1995 Bank of America issued a famous report on sprawl in California. The bank pronounced: 'Urban job centers have decentralized to… — Dolores Hayden Copy Share Image
