It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth -- and Visions of a Better Future

Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare. The United States now has the most rapes, assaults, murders, and serial killings per capita, by a wide margin, than any other first-world nation. It’s a Sprawl World After All is the first book to link America’s increase in violence and the corresponding breakdown in society with the post-World War II development of suburban sprawl.

Without small towns to bring people together, the unplanned growth of sprawl has left Americans isolate...