Essays and Op Pieces by Robert Bruegmann

Selected Articles about Robert Bruegmann and Sprawl: A Compact History

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Essays and Op Ed Pieces by Robert Bruegmann

Driving Works for Section on Commuting, forbes.com, 29 July 2008. (Word doc)

Short essay for How should we be thinking about urbanization? A
Freakonomics Quorum, Dec. 11, 2007
(PDF file)

“Dust-Up” Five part debate with Gloria Ohland in the LA Times, June
18-22, 2007
(PDF file)

“In Defense of Sprawl” Forbes.com, June 11, 2007
(PDF file)

Interview with Ellis Woodman in Cities: Architecture and Society in
10th Annual Venice Biennale, 2006
(PDF file)

"Urban Myths: Sprawl gets a bad press but it has given us privacy,
mobility and choice," in The Guardian (London) Jan. 28, 2006
(PDF file)

"How Sprawl Got a Bad Name" (extended excerpts from the book edited and
rearranged) in American Enterprise, June 2006

"Poor Misunderstood Sprawl," in New York Times, July 9, 2006

"Gridlock, schmidlock: LA traffic isn’t as bad as you think," in Los
Angeles Times, July 9, 2006

L.A., the King of Sprawl? Not at all. Los Angeles Times, Oct. 23, 2005
(PDF file)

"The End of Cities: An Urban Legend," Washington Post, Outlook Section,
Nov. 25, 2001, p. 2.

"Exurbanization and Gentrification: How the Two patterns have been linked since the beginning of urban history," in the Next American City, issue 11, 2006