| Suburban nation - The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
(2000)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Author |
| Andres Duany |
| Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk |
| Jeff Speck |
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| Genre |
Architecture; City Planning; Design; Human Ecology |
| Subject |
Urbanization |
| Publication Date |
2000 |
| Format |
Hardcover
(210
mm)
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| Publisher |
North Point Press |
| Language |
eng |
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| Plot |
| 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. |
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
HT384.U5D83 2000 |
| Dewey |
307.76/0973 |
| ISBN |
0865475571 |
| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Cover Price |
$35.00 |
| Nr of Pages |
256 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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