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Suburban nation the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream
- "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. [The authors] are at the forefront of this movement, and in [this book] they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. It is a ... 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 ... book that also offers solutions. -http://www.loc.gov/catdir"
- "Suburban nation the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American Dream"