Perspectives
Current issues
To have a better understanding of the text “The Victims of Sprawl” by Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, it would be useful to look at current issues related to urban sprawl.
As the authors of “The Victims of Sprawl” define it, sprawl is the unorganized spread of suburbs outwards from the city centers and the original suburbs. Sprawl happens with little to a…
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Textual perspectives
The text “Our America” by LeAlan Jones discusses another problem present in American society: the racial divide between African Americans and the rest of the American population. The text talks about the way African Americans still face discriminatory barriers which prevent them from accessing the same universal rights as other Americans. While in “The Victims of Sprawl”, the authors discuss a problem of the physical structure of American cities, in “Our America”, Jones di…