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by Andres Duany , Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk , Jeff Speck

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A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.
There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable ... more

     

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      A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.
      There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day.
      Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia-characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots-and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.

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      • Media: Paperback Book, 320 pages
      • Language: English
      • Publisher: North Point Press (Apr. 30th, 2001)
      • ISBN-10: 0865476063
      • ISBN-13: 9780865476066
      • Dimensions: 7.94 x 8.12 x 0.81 inches
      • Shipping Weight: 1.34 lbs
      • Categories: Architecture Planning City Planning Urban Development Urban Sociology

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