Philosopher David Kolb does more than defend sprawling places. In this book he goes on the offensive: "Planners should seek inspiration from places that are sprawling, fractured, multiple, paratactic, intersecting-from the suburban commercial strip, from the Net, from speeded-up, fragmented, virtual, discontinuous, mobile inhabitations rather than classic piazzas and small towns" (p. 2). Kolb is engaged with the literature of urban theorists, planners, architects, and other critics of sprawling places, and in some regards he is justified in condemning their exaggerated claims of the commodification and meaninglessness of contemporary places.
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