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This is the best book we've read for urban planning book club so far, though it assumes a fair bit of knowledge (e.g. why Robert Moses was important). It did a very pleasing job of tracing the similar impulses of different generations of Americans to "go back to the land" and form living environments that encouraged "community." There might always be a set of reformers who haven't learned that almost no one actually wants to be a subsistence farmer if there are any other options for feeding one'
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I have been reading this book for sooo long. Ummm... I think it had some good points but never quite felt like it added up to enough to make the point he was trying to make ... but maybe that's just my slow reading. Hard to tell
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