Suburban Nation - Andres Duany
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
KORTE INHOUD
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 shop...
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 shop...
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2000Uitgever: North Point Press256 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0865475571ISBN-13: 9780865475571Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2000, hardcover with dust jacket, good copy [Auteur: Duany, Andres; Plater-Zyberk, Elizabeth; Speck, Jeff] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: North Point Press] [Jaar: 2000] [Titel: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream]
