Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280) and index
Description:
"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."--BOOK JACKET
What is sprawl, and why? -- The devil is in the details -- The house that sprawl built -- The physical creation of society -- The American transportation mess -- Sprawl and the developer -- The victims of sprawl -- The city and the region -- The inner city -- How to make a town -- What is to be done -- Appendix A: The traditional neighborhood development checklist -- Appendix B: The Congress for the New Urbanism