Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Shannon Bassett
The issues in which designers and scholars must address, with respect to urbanism, are increasingly global and complex in both context as well as in magnitude. Arguably, concepts such as “smart growth” and “new urbanism” were initially theories and strategies applied to Western cities and conditions, aimed to counter, for example, the shrinking of cities. Detroit epitomizes this phenomena, for example, where “white flight” to the suburbs, enabled by the Federal Highway act and subsidized mortgages to returning SecondWorld War GI’s created ensuing suburban sprawl and the eating up of valuable rural and agricultural lands beyond former defined urban and rural boundaries.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.42
Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne
ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4
