Analysis

Here are the elements which will help you with your analysis of the excerpt from the chapter “The Victims of Sprawl” by Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck.

The rhetorical situation is that the authors Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are architects and founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, which supports an organized and planned suburban structure. Author Jeff Speck is an American city planner who works for an urban design consultancy firm. The essay you have to analyze is part of the authors’ book, Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream.

The composition of the essay can be split into seven parts, according to the categories that the authors focus upon. While the essay is part of a b...