A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is 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 more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly ...
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A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is 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 more traditional planning principles. This movement stems not only from the realization that sprawl is ecologically and economically unsustainable but also from a growing awareness of sprawl's many victims: children, utterly dependent on parental transportation if they wish to escape the cul-de-sac; the elderly, warehoused in institutions once they lose their driver's licenses; the middle class, stuck in traffic for two or more hours each day. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement, and in Suburban Nation they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a lively, thorough, 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 is an indictment of the entire development community, including governments, for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is that rare book that also offers solutions.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 290 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 99052186 Type of material Book Personal name Duany, Andres. Main title Suburban nation: the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created New York: North Point Press, c2000. Description xiv, [290] p. : ill.; 21 cm. ISBN 0865475571 (alk. paper) LC classification HT384. U5 D83 2000 Related names Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth. Speck, Jeff. Contents 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. LC Subjects Urbanization--United States. Suburbs--United States. Community development, Urban--United States. Urban renewal--United States. Urban policy--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index. Dewey class no. 307.76/0973 Geographic area code n-us---
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This is painful to read, it sheds a harsh light on how barren our public space has become. No wonder we're spending so much trying to make it up in our houses.
The authors assume quaint cozy neighborhoods are possible. I see them as a phase. The truly successful attract wealth and they escalate the property values to unsustainable (corner store can't afford to be there any more, cottages are knocked down and a family "compound" is built, farmland being sold off in pieces to keep up with taxes). This is a flaw in the concept of property tax based on property "value" - what someone else would pay for your property at any given time. No small problem in communities that are growing.
They offer a multitude of concepts that can improve the livability of most towns. Unfortunately, developers look after only their own interests and town planners are volunteers in most of America. By the time towns hire a professional planner, the damage has been done. I will offer the book to my own town planners but I'm not holding out hope that it'll impact their limited perspective of their role or authority.
