false 13086 3 <div>A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br></div> 15265 16 4 2000 Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream total:334|5:119|4:133|3:70|2:9|1:3| 334 1358 528 63 4 1 false false Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 07:06:17 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:08:16 -0800 2008
1. Learn lessons from the past.
2. Think beyond self-interest.
3. Believe it can be better.
4. Make it better.

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