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Language: en
Pages: 136
Pages: 136
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
Pages: 330
Pages: 330
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions o
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-14 - Publisher: Island Press
There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However, until now there has been no single gu
Language: en
Pages: 336
Pages: 336
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-11-04 - Publisher: Vintage
A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live. From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stor
Language: en
Pages: 324
Pages: 324
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Macmillan
Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in "Suburban Nation" they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they eco