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Sprawl: A Compact History
CEP Santiago11 Dec. 2007
Robert BruegmannUniversity of Illinois at Chicago
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Paris, Southwest Suburbs, late 1950s
Toronto, 1972
The Viewfrom the Plane
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The apogee of anti-sprawl: Hemispheres Magazine,c. 2000
4 Major Complaints about Sprawl: 1. Economically inefficient2. Socially inequitable3. Environmentally degrading4 Aesthetically Ugly
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Sprawl and Traffic
Kansas City
Tokyo
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I. History of Sprawl
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Accepted Wisdom
Sprawl is:-Recent-American (Canadian, Australian)-Based on Automobile
Suburban BostonBurlingtonMall AreaMass. Rte.128 & US 3 nw of Boston
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The evils of density: Impasse des Bourdonnais, Paris in 19th century photo Marville
Problem: lack of agreedupon definition
Minimum Definition forPurposes of history
-Lower Density-No Masterplan
Conclusion: Sprawl as oldAs cities
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Ancient Suburban Sprawl:Herculaneum
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Classical exurban Sprawl:Hadrian’s Villa at TivoliOutside Rome
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Nineteenth Century Suburban Sprawl London,Camberwell
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Density Gradient for London 1801-1951From Colin Clark, Town Planning Review 1958
Density Gradient, London 1801-1951
The Density Gradient Per sq.Kilometer26,000
2,600
260
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Gentrification and Sprawl Paris: Boulevard St. Michel
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The Interwar Years : London Built Up Area 1914 and 1939 from 1944 Plan of London
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Middle Class Suburban Sprawl in London- Merton Park
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Home of the average Parisian: Senart
Postwar Social Housing in Bobigny, Suburban Paris
Post War Europe
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Private Automobile Ownership in the United States and Europeredrawn from Gerondeau, Transit in Europe
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Modes of Transit in Europe redrawn from Gerondeau, Transit in Europe
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Hoffman Estates outside Chicago, Illinois
Postwar US
Naperville
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Changes in Density for selected Urbanized Areas, data from Wendell Cox, demographia.com
Air view approaching LAX
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Convergence
From Wendell Cox, demographia.com
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Some Urban densities todayCity Population Per Square
Per Sq. Mile Kilometer1 Dhaka, Bangladesh 84,300 32,0002 Mumbai, India 76,700 29.5003 Hong Kong, China 76,200 29,30022 Medellin, Columbia 54,000 20,80023 Kano, Nigeria 50,000 19,200192 Shenzen, China 22,000 8,500196 Santiago, Chile 21,700 8,300366 Seville, Spain 14,400 5,500394 London, UK 13,200 5,000426 Shanghai, China 11,800 4,500504 Beijing, China 9,600 3,700554 Los Angeles, CA 7,100 2,700571 Hamburg, Gemany 6,000 2,300592 Copenhagen, Denmark 4,800 1,800Source: Wendell Cox, demographia.com
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Growth of Santiago1890-2002Cartographyby Ivan Poduje
From AlexanderGaletovic, EditorSantiago Donde Estamos y hacia donevamos
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SantiagoMap by Ivan Poduje
Paris
Moscow
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New York City, South BronxMelbourne, Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Central City
San Francisco Ghirardelli Square
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Phoenix View at northwest edge of built up area Munich, approach into Franz Josef Strauss Airport
Suburbs
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The McMansion in Exurbia: Luray, Virginia
Napa Valley outside St. Helena, CA north Of San Francisco
Exurbs
Near Grasse on French Riviera
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The single-family house: Dresden Bannewitz
The single-family house: southeast peripheryOf Melbourne
Global Convergence:The Single Family House
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The single-family house For a New Russian familyOutside Moscow
The single-family house in BeijingAd in English language magazine
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Boston or Bangkok?
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II. History of Complaints about Sprawl
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Thomas Sharp, Town and Country-Side, 1932
1. The First Generation of Complaints about Sprawl
Patrick Abercrombie
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Influential American Blast against sprawl: William H Whyte, Editor, The Exploding Metropolis 1958
2. The Second Generation Postwar decades
1 Economic
2 Social
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3 Environmental 4 Aesthetic
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3. The Third Generation: Recent decades
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Climate Change
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Energy News, 2005, data from New South Wales, Australia
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III. Remedies for Sprawl
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Ebenezer Howard, Garden City 1898
The Great English Reform PlanningModel
Welwyn Garden City from Punch, 1920
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The Great British anti-sprawlCrusade:Redreawn fromPatrick AbercrombieGreater LondonPlan, 1944
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The current poster child for anti-sprawl: Portland, Oregon 2040 Concept Plan
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Sprawl successfully stopped: Soviet St. Petersburg
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Tseung Kwan O
The British SystemApplied: Hong Kong
HK UrbanizedArea Density:73,000 people/sq mi28,000/ sq. kilo
Average apartmentIn Hong Kong
Price:USD $300-500,000Size:530 sq. ft49 sq. meters
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The price of anti-sprawl: Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
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Housing Affordability- some highly affordable and very Unaffordable large urban areas
Ratio of median income to median house price, data for 3rd quarter 2006From Wendell Cox, demographia.com, 3rd annual int’l affordability survey
Least affordable
1 LA-Orange Co. CA 11.42 San Diego, CA 10.53 Honolulu, HI 10.34 San Francisco 10.15 Ventura Co., CA 9.46 Stockton, CA 8.67 Sydney, NSW 8.58 San Jose, CA 8.49 London 8.3
Most affordable
4 Indianapolis 2.39 Winnipeg 2.515 Pittsburgh 2.621 Dallas-Fort Worth 2.726 Cleveland 2.831 Atlanta 2.931 Columbus OH 2.931 Houston 2.931 Ottawa 2.9
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Suburban BostonBurlingtonMall AreaMassachusetts Route 128 and US 3 nw of Boston
ConclusionsSprawl is:1. Bad Diagnostic Tool2. Distracts us from real urban problems3. Obscures our urban vision