Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by Andres Duany
Book Description
The publication of Suburban Nation gave voice to 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. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of this movement. The book received an enormous amount of attention and even its critics recognized, as Fred Barnes did in The Weekly Standard, that "Suburban Nation is likely to become [the movement's] bible." A lively lament about the failures of postwar planning, this is also that rare book that offers solutions.
About the Author
Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk lead a firm that has designed more than 200 new neighborhoods and community revitalization plans, most notably Seaside, Florida. Jeff Speck is director of town planning for the firm.
Keywords: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, Books, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck, Architecture, Politics - Current Events, Planning, City Planning & Urban Development, Sociology - Urban, Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings
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