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A Field Guide to Sprawl
Dolores Hayden with Aerial Photographs by Jim Wark
New York: W.W. Norton, 2004
128 pp., $24.95, hardcover
ISBN: 0-393-73125-1

Sprawl - "to cause to spread out carelessly or awkwardly."

— Mirriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

A Field Guide to Sprawl is a both a tongue-in-cheek and a very serious guide to sprawl. Complete with aerial photographs to illustrate various sprawl terminology, it is a highly educational guide to understanding building/real estate patterns in our communities. Some of the terms Hayden defines range from "Big Boxes" (large, windowless commercial development), to "Greenfields" (housing developments built on/adjacent to farmland), from the literal "Leapfrog" housing developments to the comical term "Litter on a stick" (a.k.a. billboards). She even has a visual/literal definition for "Tract Mansion." A Field Guide to Sprawl is a must-have visual dictionary for teachers, activists, and others who have struggled to explain the concept of sprawl in mere words.

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