sprawlbuster

plural sprawlbusters

1. urban studiesAn opponent of suburban sprawl.

   In particular, he singles out three heroes: community development corporations, "sprawlbusters," and the New Urbanism.

   2009 July 13, Ann Mongoven, Just Love: Transforming Civic Virtue, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 160

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   Sprawlbusters everywhere were empowered by Disney's withdrawal. Many saw the parallels to hometown proposals in Disney's 3000-acre scheme – a 400-acre theme park and parking lots, surrounded by 2300 units of suburban housing, 1.9 million square feet of mall development, two golf courses, a waterpark, campsite, and more […]

   1998, Roberta Brandes Gratz, Norman Mintz, Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown, Wiley-Interscience

   In-house sprawlbuster Constance E. Beaumont has described the downslide for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. With the road as colonizer, “exurbanization” launches the momentum to destruction and disinvestment, she began.

   2012 June 20, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, Crown, →ISBN