Suburban Nation : The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)

from nerichardson

doesn't waste time sneering at horrible, dehumanized exurban sprawl but takes an idealistic look at how suburbia can be reclaimed and saved or at least how new developments can avoid the usual drab horrors. a very hopeful book that deserves a larger readership than new urbanists.

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Subruban Nation provides a good overview of the condition of the American landscape, which has become, especially over the last sixty years, a stretch of parking lots, strip malls, and segregated-use neighborhoods. The authors offer suggestions and examples for a new neighborhood model, based on ...

from rivkat

Anti-sprawl polemic, with plenty of pictures and statistics to make the case that building bigger houses further out is killing us-and this was well before the mortgage crisis! The authors tout New Urbanism instead, which relies on control-freak design to mix uses and make sure neighborhoods "fee...

from amelish

It's necessary but I don't have to love it, right?