Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck.
Record details
- ISBN: 0865476063 (pbk)
- Physical Description: xiv, 293 p. : ill., maps ; 20 x 20 cm.
- Edition: 1st paperback ed.
- Publisher: New York : North Point Press, 2001.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-280) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | What is sprawl, and why? -- The devil is in the details -- The house that sprawl built -- The physical creation of society -- The American transportation mess -- Sprawl and the developer -- The victims of sprawl -- The city and the region -- The inner city -- How to make a town -- What is to be done -- Appendix A: The traditional neighborhood development checklist -- Appendix B: The congress for the new urbanism. |
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Subject: | Urbanization > United States. Suburbs > United States. Community development, Urban > United States. Urban renewal > United States. Urban policy > United States. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HT 384 .U5 D83 2001 | 30527707 | General Collection | Available | - |
Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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.