The Use of Land was motivated by disappointment with postwar sprawl

Evidence

As Reilly explained, the reform effort was motivated by a deep disappointment with the postwar pattern of development. Accordingly, the task force argued for legislation to ensure that the next wave of development would be better than the sprawl that followed World War II: “The massive urban growth foreseeable by the end of the century must be managed without destroying what we most value in the distinctiveness of our neighborhoods and communities; the beauty of our countryside, coastal lands, and mountains; and the delicate rhythms of nature.” — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 959

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• XREF: Names William Reilly, later EPA head — personifies the lawyer-planner-environmentalist crossover this book’s argument depends on. — connects to: Frontier abundance mentally licensed wasteful land use until suburbia exhausted it — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 963