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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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Urbanization, Suburbs, Urban Community development, Urban policy, Urban renewal, Stadtplanung, Suburbanisierung, Urbanisation, Rénovation, Banlieues, Städtebau, Villes, Stadtsanierung, Politique urbaine, Développement communautaire urbain, Stadsvernieuwing, Urbanisatie, Voorsteden, Community development, united statesPlaces
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Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream
2010, North Point Press
in English
- 10th anniversary ed.
0865477507 9780865477506
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
2000, North Point Press
Hardcover
in English
- 1st edition
0865475571 9780865475571
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Suburban Nation is a groundbreaking analysis of the detrimental ecological effects and societal costs of late 20th century automobile-based settlement patterns and policies
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