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Morris, Douglas E.

 
9780865715462: It's a Sprawl World After All
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0865715467 ISBN 13 : 9780865715462
Editeur : New Society Publishers, 2005

Synopsis

Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare. The US now has the most rapes, assaults, murders and serial killings per capita, by a wider margin than any other first-world nation. It's a Sprawl World After All is the first book to link America's increase in violence and the corresponding breakdown in society with the post WWII development of suburban sprawl. Without small towns to bring people together, the unplanned growth of sprawl has left Americans isolated, alienated and afraid of the strangers that surround them. Suburbia has substituted cars for conversation, malls for main streets, and the artificial community of television for authentic social interaction. This has resulted in dramatically negative impacts on US society, including: the transformation of America's community-oriented small-town sensibilities into an isolated society of strangers burdened by isolation, loneliness and depression the emergence of a culture of incivility characterised by extreme individualism and a callous disregard for others, and levels of violence so rampant as to be proclaimed 'epidemic' by the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Advocating that urgent attention be paid to managing development by emulating the smart growth examples of European cities, the book's final section offers readers tools to rebuild community in their lives as well as in society at large. It offers practical solutions that can improve everyone's quality of life. Provocative and thoughtful, It's A Sprawl World After All also includes a helpful resource listing of organisations committed to making communities more sustainable.

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Douglas E Morris

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Éditeur
New Society Publishers
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0865715467
ISBN 13 
9780865715462
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
243
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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