Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism, (Hardcover)

from neurodrew

My son Mike has become interested in local government and city planning. He lent me this book. It is interesting and briskly written. The author begins with a history of the development of suburbia from the late 1800's, citing Llewellyn Park in South Orange NJ as the archetype of the suburb, but ...

from nova_mjohnson

An absolutely fascinating book that dives into what has created the stereotypical American suburbia sprawl and offers some options into how we move forward to better fix the issues affecting our communities. My only criticism is that I wished it went a little bit more into specifics of city desig...

from nova_mjohnson

An absolutely fascinating book that dives into what has created the stereotypical American suburbia sprawl and offers some options into how we move forward to better fix the issues affecting our communities. My only criticism is that I wished it went a little bit more into specifics of city desig...