| Asunto: | [generourban] ENG: Dolores Hayden Dispersión descontrolada A FIELD GUIDE TO SPRAWL | | Fecha: | Jueves, 10 de Febrero, 2005 18:58:26 (+0100) | | Autor: | anne <anne @.........net>
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Dolores Hayden publicó en 2004 una guia para entender lo que es la
dispersión urbana y sus consecuencias sobre el paisaje y la vida
cotidiana.
El libro está presentado con forma de glosario y humor. Fotos y textos
ayudan a entender el fenomeno y encontrar las palabras.
Anne le Maignan
http://www.generourban.org
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Dolores Hayden
A FIELD GUIDE TO SPRAWL
1. An alligator is:
A. a housemate who snaps at you
B. a green appliqué on your date’s pink polo shirt
C. a real estate investment producing no income
2. You talk to your friends about TOADS:
A. the ugliest buildings you have ever seen
B. because it is springtime
C. temporary, abandoned, obsolete,or derelict structures
3. How many waste tires sit on tire mountains and tire dumps in the U.S.?
A. 1,000,000
B. 100,000,000
C. 500,000,000
4. Litter-on-a-stick refers to:
A. throwing away a popsicle
B. failing to recycle newspapers
C. outdoor advertising, especially billboards
5. Ball-pork has been defined as:
A. hot dogs at the Yankees’ game
B. too many pigs crowded into a pen
C. a new stadium provided at taxpayers’ expense for a privately-owned ball
team
6. “Rurban” describes rapid urbanization in rural areas. A sociologist
coined the
term in:
A. 2004
B. 1994
C. 1946
7. A demographer has defined fifty-three “boomburbs” in the United States as:
A. places with over 100,000 residents that are not the largest cities in
their metro
areas
B. suburban places that have maintained double digit population growth in
recent
decades
C. both A and B are required to define a boomburb
8. LOS-F is engineering jargon for “level of service, failing.” It is most
commonly
used to refer to:
A. the effects of drought on water systems
B. electrical blackouts on the power grid
C. traffic jams
9. Businessmen and public officials participating in a “growth machine”:
A. shorten the time from planting to harvest
B. boost a stock
C. promote real estate development
10. The “mansion subsidy” which promotes monster houses is a personal
income tax
deduction for home mortgage interest, points, and property taxes (covering
up to two
homes and a principal of $1 million). Every year it costs the U.S.
government:
A. $10 million
B. $100 million
C. $100 billion
11. A developer who creates a “pig-in-a-python” has built:
A. a dump
B. an overly wide intersection
C. an edge city extended from a strip
12. “Dead worm” is used to critique:
A. environmental pollution
B. dangling wires
C. cul-de-sac layouts in residential subdivisions
Find the response in:
http://www.doloreshayden.com/index.htm
The 51 Species of Sprawl - A sprawl dictionary describes the many types of
sprawl.
June 19, 2004
http://www.matr.net/article-11272.html
Defining Sprawl: From A to Z
DOLORES HAYDEN, a professor at Yale, was driving north on Interstate 95
into the
chaotic blitzkrieg of Americana that has become her turf.
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
"There's a toad!" she exclaimed, referring not to a warty amphibian but to
a defunct
Toys "R" Us (Toad: Temporary, Obsolete, Abandoned or Derelict site). In
her green
Passat wagon, she zoomed past a profusion of "litter on a stick"
(billboards) before
spotting some "ground cover" (cheap, easily bulldozed buildings, often
self-storage
units, put up to generate income while a developer waits to build
something more
profitable). ..... :)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/garden/17NOTE.html?8hpib
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