Defining Sprawl -- Early sprawl -- Sprawl in the interwar boom years -- Sprawl in the Postwar boom years -- Sprawl since the 1970s -- The causes of sprawl -- Early anti-sprawl arguments -- The first anti-sprawl campaign: Britain in the 1920s -- The second anti-sprawl campaign: The United States in the postwar years -- The third anti-sprawl campaign: since the 1970s -- Early remedies: from anti-blight to anti-sprawl -- Postwar anti-sprawl remedies -- Anti-sprawl remedies since the 1970s.