The Next American Metropolis : Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
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One of the foremost practitioners of New Urbanism, Peter Calthorpe, an urban designer and architect based in Berkeley, California, offers one of the most coherent and persuasive arguments for moving the United States away from sprawl and toward more compact, mixed-use, economically diverse, and ecologically sound communities. This book presents 24 of Calthorpe's regional urban plans, in which towns are organized so that residents can be less dependent upon their cars and can walk, bike, or take public transportation between work, school, home, and shopping. This book is not just for architects and urban planners, but for all concerned citizens interested in developing a cohesive, feasible vision of the sustainable city of the future.
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Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.
The Next American Metropolis : Ecology, Community, and the American Dream,Peter Calthorpe,Princeton Arch,1878271687,Architecture,City planning,Metropolitan areas,Planning,Sociology,Sociology - Urban,United States,Urban Design,Urban ecology,Architecture / General,City planning - United States,Metropolitain areas,Social Science / Sociology / Urban
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