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Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
William S. Saunders
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Description for Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
Paperback. Editor(s): Saunders, William S. Series: Harvard Design Magazine Readers S. Num Pages: 160 pages, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMVD; RP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative Smart Growth initiatives have been enacted around the country while the neotraditionalist New Urbanism has been embraced by many architects and urban planners. Yet most Americans persist in their desire to live farther and farther away from urban centers, moving to exurbs made up almost entirely of single-family residential houses and stand-alone shopping areas. Sprawl and Suburbia brings together some of the foremost thinkers in the field to ... Read more
Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative Smart Growth initiatives have been enacted around the country while the neotraditionalist New Urbanism has been embraced by many architects and urban planners. Yet most Americans persist in their desire to live farther and farther away from urban centers, moving to exurbs made up almost entirely of single-family residential houses and stand-alone shopping areas. Sprawl and Suburbia brings together some of the foremost thinkers in the field to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Harvard Design Magazine Readers S.
Condition
New
Weight
204g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647552
SKU
V9780816647552
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About William S. Saunders
William S. Saunders is editor of Harvard Design Magazine and assistant dean for external relations at the Harvard Design School. He is the author of Modern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller. Robert Fishman is professor of architecture and urban planning at the Taubman College of Architecture, University of Michigan. He is author of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of ... Read more
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