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Suburban nation, the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

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Suburban nation, the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index

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illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Suburban nation

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bibliography

Oclc number

42690066

Responsibility statement

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck

Review

"Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. This book is a lively 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 indicts the design and development industries for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is a book that also offers us solutions."--Jacket

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the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream

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