Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
 

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

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... (read more)

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Kristin L
  • Rated 4 stars

As a potential resource for new suburban planning, it's not a perfect book, and I found a lot to disagree with even though I am sick of my car, and deeply ready to give up sprawl. But the copious data and research therein goes a long way to explaining why, even after the county added a sidewalk to my neighborhood's access street, you hardly ever see anybody walking there; and why no grocery store will ever be less than three miles from my house.

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elvenprincess
  • Rated 2 stars

This book was fairly interesting for about a hundred pages, and then it got bogged down with too many details about city planning. I suppose if a person is really interested in city planning this would be a good book to read, but for the rest of us it's a bore.

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