Duany, Andres.

Suburban nation : the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. - 1st ed. - New York : North Point Press, c2000. - xiv, [294] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction ix -- What Is Sprawl, and Why? 3 -- z The Devil Is in the Details 21 -- 3 The House That Sprawl Built 39 -- 4 The Physical Creation of Society 59 -- 5 The American Transportation Mess 85 -- 6 Sprawl and the Developer 99 -- 7 TheVictims of Sprawl 115 -- 8 The Cityand the Region i35 -- 9 'he Inner City 153 -- lo Howto Make a Town 83 -- ii What Is to Be Done 215 -- Appendix A: The Traditional Neighborhood -- Development Checklist 245 -- Appendix B: The Congress for the New Urbanism 253 -- Acknowledgments 263 -- Notes 267 -- Bibliography 269 -- Sources of Illustrations 277 -- Index 279.

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Urbanization--United States.
Suburbs--United States.
Community development, Urban--United States.
Urban renewal--United States.
Urban policy--United States.

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