Suburban Nation The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Name: Suburban Nation The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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ISBN: 9780865476066

ISBN-10: 0865476063

ISBN-13: 9780865476066

Edition: 2001

Authors: 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 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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/16/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 8.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Andres Duany, along with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, leads a firm that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods & community revitalization plans, most notably, Seaside, Florida.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, along with Andres Duany, leads a firm that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods & community revitalization plans, most notably, Seaside, Florida.

Jeff Speck is director of town planning for the firm led by Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods & community revitalization plans, most notably, Seaside, Florida.



Introduction



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



The Traditional Neighborhood Development Checklist



The Congress for the New Urbanism


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Sources of Illustrations


Index