Sprawl Quote by Avi Friedman

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

— Richard Rogers

All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in…

— Aldous Huxley

[Suburbia] represents, after all, the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world. We built it during our most affluent period of…

— James Howard Kunstler

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what…

— Richard Lamm

We've gone through the urban renewal cycle in the '60s and '70s that really did a lot of damage to the fabric of urban…

— David Byrne

If we wish to rebuild our cities, we must first rebuild our neighborhoods. And to do that, we must understand that the quality of…

— Harvey Milk

One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town,…

— James Howard Kunstler

“other words, bad neighborhoods no longer plague only urban ghettos; the bad neighborhoods have spread to the suburbs.”

— J.D. Vance

The social and physical construction of suburban America really was quite complex. It was a very elaborate system, and clearly a massive social engineering…

— Noam Chomsky

The two elements of the suburban pattern that cause the greatest problems are the extreme separation of uses and the vast distances between things

— James Howard Kunstler

“The desirability of segregating dwellings from work has been so dinned into us that it takes an effort to look at real life and…

— Jane Jacobs

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard