Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health And Money

by Joel S. Hirschhorn

Sprawl Kills is a hard-hitting book with a new market approach for replacing sprawl with Healthy Places. It explains why America is balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff, teetering as it looks at two distinct futures. One where citizens are empowered as consumers and voters to get real housing, community and transportation choices for leading healthier, physically active lives, while the other is fraught with obesity, exclusion, worsening traffic, and disappearing greenspace. You will learn how to fight corrupt sprawl politics, identify sprawl shills, and kill sprawl before it kills you.

400 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Dexter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Look, I hate sprawl (and most things in general) as much as the next person, so when I heard the author interviewed on NPR I was interested in reading about it. I was like 220 pages interested, not almost 500 pages interested. We're not talking about WW2 here. Plus, the author is just so blatantly "anti" that he just sucks the fun out of reading it. Its all one long diatribe that might have worked in a shorter book.