Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Reading this article made me want to compose a definiton of sprawl.
Here goes:
Sprawl is the land use pattern characterized by decentralized services and emphasis on the individual land owner. Community participation requires a car and predominantly occurs in commercial spaces. Further the decentralization of services (utilities, law enforcement, etc) raises the cost per family for these services (needs more plumbing, police, etc). Consequently sprawl tends to create a community which is excludes the participation of the poor.
This needs some work...for example I think sprawl kind of feeds on itself. creating greater and greater rings of low density development. I'll try again later.
Architecture!
Here goes:
Sprawl is the land use pattern characterized by decentralized services and emphasis on the individual land owner. Community participation requires a car and predominantly occurs in commercial spaces. Further the decentralization of services (utilities, law enforcement, etc) raises the cost per family for these services (needs more plumbing, police, etc). Consequently sprawl tends to create a community which is excludes the participation of the poor.
This needs some work...for example I think sprawl kind of feeds on itself. creating greater and greater rings of low density development. I'll try again later.
Architecture!
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