Planning in The Age of Sprawl - Hamilton County, Ohio
Planning in The Age of Sprawl - Hamilton County, Ohio
Planning in The Age of Sprawl - Hamilton County, Ohio
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PLANNING IN THE AGE OF SPRAWL<br />
CONFLICTING VIEWS ON SUBURBANIZATION<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
INTRODUCTION 1<br />
ABOUT THIS REPORT 1<br />
A RANGE OF DEFINITIONS 2<br />
A RANGE OF SUBURBAN VIEWS 3<br />
A RANGE OF CONSEQUENCES 6<br />
A RANGE OF CAUSES 7<br />
A RANGE OF ADVICE 9<br />
HAMILTON COUNTY’S SPATIAL FRAMEWORK 11<br />
Notes 13<br />
Bibliography 14<br />
“We are us<strong>in</strong>g land plann<strong>in</strong>g strategies which are<br />
40 years old and no longer relevant or affordable<br />
to today’s culture. We are still build<strong>in</strong>g World<br />
War II suburbs as if families were large and had<br />
only one breadw<strong>in</strong>ner, as if jobs were all<br />
downtown, as if land and energy were endless and<br />
as if another lane on the freeway would end traffic<br />
congestion. It is time to overhaul the American<br />
dream… We must move...from segregated sprawl<br />
to place more like traditional American towns.”—<br />
Peter Calthorpe and Henry Richmond, Chang<strong>in</strong>g<br />
America<br />
“<strong>Sprawl</strong> has gotten a bad rap. It has become the<br />
all-purpose catchword for the rape <strong>of</strong> the<br />
environment by unscrupulous builders. But<br />
<strong>Sprawl</strong> is also an expression <strong>of</strong> upward mobility.<br />
An unprecedented 67 percent <strong>of</strong> Americans now<br />
own their own homes. <strong>Sprawl</strong> is part <strong>of</strong> the price<br />
we’re pay<strong>in</strong>g for creat<strong>in</strong>g the world’s first mass<br />
upper-middle class.”—New Democrat
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