Summary

The excerpt from the chapter “The Victims of Sprawl” by Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck begins with a few comments on how children who live in suburbs are affected by urban sprawl. The authors contrast the popular belief that suburbs are ideal places for children with the reality, which shows that children who live in suburbs are isolated and dependent on adults. 

The authors then focus on how sprawl affects adults, particularly suburban housewives who give up their careers to constantly drive their children to different places as the children have no way of walking or commuting, unlike in city centers. The authors insert a letter from a woman who complains that sprawl makes it almost impossible for her and her family to walk instead of constantly dr...