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OverviewA manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andres Duany , Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk , Jeff Speck , Elizabeth Plater-ZyberkPublisher: North Point Press Imprint: North Point Press Dimensions: Width: 20.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.608kg ISBN: 9780865476066ISBN 10: 0865476063 Pages: 318 Publication Date: 16 April 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn essential text for our time . . . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book. --Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture<br><br> [This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the 'nostalgia' for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense. --Vincent Scully<br><br> Suburban Nation dissects the physical design of the suburbs brilliantly . . . [the authors] set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning. --Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker <br><br> A powerful manifesto . . . No one has yet produced a work as pithy or likely to win converts to the cause as this briskly written and persuasive brief. --Alexander von Hoffman, The Boston Sunday Globe <br> “An essential text for our time . . . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book.”—Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture <br>“[This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the ‘nostalgia’ for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense.”—Vincent Scully <br> Suburban Nation dissects the physical design of the suburbs brilliantly . . . [the authors] set forth more clearly than a An essential text for our time . . . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book. --Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture <br> [This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the 'nostalgia' for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense. --Vincent Scully <br> Suburban Nation dissects the physical design of the suburbs brilliantly . . . [the authors] set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elementse An essential text for our time . . . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book. -- Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture <br> [This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the ' nostalgia' for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense. -- Vincent Scully <br> Suburban Nation dissects the physical design of the suburbs brilliantly . . . [the authors] set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning. --Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker <br> A powerful manifesto . . . No one has yet produced a work as pithy or likely to win converts to the cause as this briskly written and persuasive brief. --Alexander von Hoffman, The Boston Sunday Globe <br> Author InformationAndres 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. <br> Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |