{"product_id":"twentieth-century-sprawl","title":"Twentieth-Century Sprawl","description":"\u003cp\u003eHere, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers.Gutfreund uses a \"follow the money\" approach, showing how government policies subsidized suburban development and fueled a chronic nationwide dependence on cars and roadbuilding, with little regard for expense, efficiency, ecological damage, or\n\u003cbr\u003esocial equity.  The consequence was a combination of unstoppable suburban sprawl, along with ballooning municipal debt burdens, deteriorating center cities, and profound changes in American society and\n\u003cbr\u003eculture.Gutfreund tells the story via case studies of three communities--Denver, Colorado; Middlebury, Vermont; and Smyrna, Tennessee.  Different as these places are, they all show the ways that government-sponsored highway development radically transformed America's cities and towns.Based on original research and vividly written, Twentieth-Century Sprawl brings to light the benefits and consequences of the spread of American highways and makes a major\n\u003cbr\u003econtribution to our understanding of issues that still plague our cities and suburbs today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46059410325742,"sku":"9780195189070","price":41.87,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780195189070.jpg?v=1736498969","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/twentieth-century-sprawl","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}