Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- ISBN-10
- 0865476063
- ISBN-13
- 9780865476066
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 290
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-04-16
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Authors
- Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Andres Duany, Jeff Speck
Description
Three members of the Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism give voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to traditional planning principles. Reprint.
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