SPRAWL: A COMPACT HISTORY
Book ID/图书代码： 13560006B02505
English Summary/英文概要： As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out into the countryside. Detractors call it sprawl and assert that it is economically inefficient, socially inequitable, environmentally irresponsible, and aesthetically ugly. Robert Bruegmann calls it a logical consequence of economic growth and the democratization of society, with benefits that urban planners have failed to recognize. In his incisive history of the expanded city, Bruegmann overturns every assumption we have about sprawl. Taking a long view of urban development, he demonstrates that sprawl is neither recent nor particularly American but as old as cities themselves, just as characteristic of ancient Rome and eighteenth-century Paris as it is of Atlanta or Los Angeles. Nor is sprawl the disaster claimed by many contemporary observers. Although sprawl, like any settlement pattern, has undoubtedly produced problems that must be addressed, it has also provided millions of people with the kinds of mobility, privacy, and choice that were once the exclusive prerogatives of the rich and powerful. The first major book to strip urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, Sprawl offers a completely new vision of the city and its growth. Bruegmann leads readers to the powerful conclusion that "in its immense complexity and constant change, the city-whether dense and concentrated at its core, looser and more sprawling in suburbia, or in the vast tracts of exurban penumbra that extend dozens, even hundreds, of miles-is the grandest and most marvelous work of mankind."
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 任何人曾黄昏时飞抵洛杉矶或中午时到达休斯顿，都能体会到如今的城市正在挑战着传统观念上对于一个城市的定义。我们以前对城市、郊区、农村的定义，在这些地块的复杂性面前，显得错误百出，因为高速公路、住宅小区、工业区、办公区、休闲区都安置在了乡村。批评者称之为扩张，并断言这样是经济效率低下，社会不公平，对环境不负责任以及审美丑陋的表现。Robert Bruegmann认为这是城市规划者没能认识到的好处，即经济发展和社会民主化的结果。Bruegmann关于扩张的城市有着敏锐的历史判断力，他推翻了我们对扩张的任何一个论断。从城市发展的历史进程来看，他认为，扩张不是近段时间也不是单单美国出现的，而在于城市自身。亚特兰大和落砂机的特征，也正如古罗马和十八世纪的巴黎一样。扩张也并不是许多当代观察家所宣称的灾难。和任何的聚落形态一样，尽管扩张必定产生必须要解决的问题，但是它也为数百万人提供了流动性、隐私和选择权，这些曾是富人和权贵们的专属特权。这是第一本不使用对城市扩张带有轻蔑词语的书籍，扩张为城市及其发展提供了一个全新的视野。Bruegmann让读者们相信这样一个有力的结论“在城市巨大的复杂性和不断的变化下，中心区的不断聚集，密度升高，郊区的相对松散和更易扩张，或者是远郊的大片半影，绵延几十甚至上百公里的土地，才是人类最伟大、最了不起的作品”。(LNL)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Robert Bruegmann，芝加哥伊利诺伊大学艺术历史系教授、主席，城市规划建筑与项目学校教授。他的书籍有《建筑师与城市：Holabird和Roche与芝加哥（1880-1918）》，由芝加哥大学出版社出版。Robert Bruegmann is chair of and professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago as well as professor in the School of Architecture and the Program in Urban Planning. His many books include The Architects and the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago, 1880-1918, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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