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Sprawl and Urban Development
Articles from The Atlantic Monthly's archive and related links "The New Continental Divide" (January/February 2003) Overcrowded cities on the coasts. Dying rural communities in the interior. The way to save both may be to create a post-agrarian heartland. By Michael Lind "The Bilbao Effect" (September 2002) Public competitions for architectural commissions don't necessarily produce the best buildings. By Witold Rybczynski "The Mall of America" (July/August 2002) The warm oblivion and eternal present tense of the country's largest mall. By Ian Frazier "Architecture for Art's Sake" (June 2001) Exciting new buildings can burnish art museums' reputations, and museums are commissioning lots of them. By Ann Wilson Lloyd "A Brand-New Olmsted" (April 2001) The discovery and replanting of a century-old lost landscape. By Witold Rybczynski "The Physics of Gridlock" (December 2000) What causes traffic jams? The depressing answer may be nothing at all. By Stephen Budiansky "Secret Gardens" (June 2000) How to turn patchwork urban backyards into neighborly communal parks. By William Drayton "Divided We Sprawl" (December 1999) A call for the reinvention of the American city and suburb that would exploit the infrastructure of the one and mitigate the "frantic privacy" of the other. By Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley "Good News!" (January 1997) From Boston to San Francisco the community-based housing movement is transforming bad neighborhoods. By Alexander von Hoffman "Home From Nowhere" (September 1996) Can the momentum of sprawl be halted? America's zoning laws, intended to control the baneful effects of industry, have mutated into a system that corrodes civic life, outlaws the human scale, and defeats tradition and authenticity. By James Howard Kunstler "What Main Street Can Learn from the Mall" (November 1995) A guided tour with a landscape architect and retailing specialist who believes that shopping malls—vilify them though we might—can offer moribund cities what they desperately need: practical lessons in the psychology of commerce. By Steven Lagerfeld "Downsizing Cities" (October 1995) To make cities work better, make them smaller. By Witold Rybczynski "How Portland Does It" (November 1992) A city that protects its thriving, civil core. By Philip Langdon "The Suburban Century Begins" (July 1992) "We are now a suburban nation with an urban fringe and a rural fringe." By William Schneider "Living Smaller" (February 1991) Big houses may someday look as outdated and impractical as big cars, for many of the same reasons. By Witold Rybczynski "A Good Place to Live" (March 1988) Today's designers of residential areas are increasingly influenced by the grid plans, narrow streets, intimate scale, and convenient shopping of nineteenth-century American towns. By Philip Langdon "How Business Is Reshaping America" (October 1986) The rapid growth of office space in suburbs is creating "urban villages" which are confronting local governments with new kinds of urban-planning problems. By Christopher B. Leinberger and Charles Lockwood "Housing: Examining a Media Myth" (October 1983) "Why not employ a federal work corps to renovate empty buildings for use as housing? The program would both create meaningful jobs and make decent again the communities where most of the unemployed live." By Gregg Easterbrook "New Yorkers Without a Voice: A Tragedy of Urban Renewal" (April 1966) When the author, a thirty-five-year-old Lutheran minister, became pastor of Manhattan's Trinity Lutheran Church in 1961, he found himself in the middle of a political row involving New York City's redevelopment officials and tenement dwellers in and near an East River housing site marked for demolition. By Arthur R. Simon "The Last Traffic Jam" (October 1972) Too many cars, too little oil. An argument for the proposition that "less is more." By Stewart Udall "Are Cities Dead?" (January 1962) "There is, indeed, much wrong with cities—big and little—but the answer is not to abandon or completely to rebuild them on abstract principles." By Robert Moses "Build and Be Damned" (December 1950) Every motorist is aware of the monotonous new communities, the clusters of little pastel houses, which have mushroomed up overnight within a thirty-mile radius of most American cities. Have they been planned with forethought or simply with a rich profit in mind? By Robert Moses "Slums and City Planning" (January 1945) "It is safe to say that almost no city needs to tolerate slums. There are plenty of ways of getting rid of them." By Robert Moses "Robert Moses" (February 1939) An Atlantic portrait. By Cleveland Rodgers "The Drift to the Cities" (September 1913) "Parents sell their wholesome country homes because of their children, and go where there are grand churches, superior schools, and attractive libraries, to find themselves in close proximity to drinking saloons, dance-halls, gambling dens, and indescribable allurements to vice. Is that better for their boys and girls?" By G. S. Dickerman Related Links Project Vote Smart's Sprawl Watch ClearinghouseStrategies for managing growth. The Smart Growth Network Devoted to socially and environmentally beneficial metropolitan growth. The Metropolitan Initiative Helps business, government, and citizens work collectively toward more livable communities. The Urban Land Institute For professionals involved in land-use decision-making. Metropolitanism Publications A collection of policy briefs, discussion papers, and monographs. The Institute for Housing and Urban Development Education in housing, urban management and urban environmental management. Brownfields EPA information about "restoring contaminated land and buildings to productive use." Stopping Suburban Sprawl An index of links to groups working to stop sprawl. Copyright © 2001 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All rights reserved. | [an error occurred while processing this directive] |
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