Photographer/Creator

Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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Date

3-1978

Description

These housing developments, built on various water-ways through what can be an environmentally harmful dredging & filling process, can be found all over the coasts of St. Petersburg. Much of these neighborhoods were developed in the early 1950’s along the Gulf Beaches and western St. Petersburg as the demand for waterfront property grew. There are more than a few examples of these kinds of “finger-shaped” neighborhoods crammed into coastal areas of St. Petersburg. Smolski says that suburban sprawl can be a”tremendous energy waster” and refers to such neighborhoods as places where “it is impossible to tell where a community ends and the country begins.”

Notes

Smolski, Chester, "Suburban Sprawl is a Tremendous Energy Waster" (1980). Smolski Texts. Paper 94. http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_text/94

(Accessed 22 May 2012)

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Photographer

Recommended Citation

Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

Urban sprawl, housing development, aerial photography, planned unit, waterfront, waterfront housing, cluster

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