The publication of Suburban Nation gave voice to a growing initiative in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the latter part of the twentieth century with a return to more traditionnal planning principles. As …
"More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happen…
"Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for the first time, Shopping …
"Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare. The US now has the most rapes, assaults, murders and serial killings per capita than any other first-world nation. Why? It's a Sprawl World After All is the first book to make the startling connection between suburban sp…
"Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare. The US now has the most rapes, assaults, murders and serial killings per capita than any other first-world nation. Why? It's a Sprawl World After All is the first book to make the startling connection between suburban sp…
Links America's increase in violence and the corresponding breakdown in society with the post WWII development of suburban sprawl. This book offers practical solutions that can improve everyone's quality of life. This book also includes a helpful resource listing of organisation…