A Review Of Suburban Nation

A review of "Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream" by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, published in 2001.

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August 16, 2004, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"[Suburban Nation is ] very non-political and pragmatic in explaining why suburbia is simply not laid out in a way thats very convenient or healthy for people. And it depicted sprawl, not as an issue of fighting growth (which is inevitable), or moving everybody back into the cities (which is unrealistic people fled them for a reason), but more of a problem of how to design neighborhoods (in both urban and suburban settings) in an efficient and scaleable manner."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

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