Essays and Op Pieces by Robert Bruegmann
Radio and TV
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Essays and Op Ed Pieces by Robert Bruegmann
“Hate Freeways? You Aren’t Doing your City Any Favors,” in Bloomberg View, Apr. 11, 2012.
“Moving out in Madrid,” in Room for Debate, NYT.com, June 28, 2011
Letter to the Editor, in New York Times, Dec. 5, 2011
"The Ambiguous Triumph of the Urban" in newgeography.com, Sept. 13, 2011 (PDF file)
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,” American Enterprise, June, 2006 (PDF file)
"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