The option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream /

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"Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl, and embrace instead a new type of community where they can live, work, shop, and play within easy walking distance. In The Option of Urbanism visionary developer and strategist Christopher B. Leinberger explains h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leinberger, Christopher B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Urbanization > United States.
Community development, Urban.
Suburbs > United States.
Cities and towns > United States > Growth.
City planning > United States.
Sustainable development > United States.
Urbanisation > États-Unis.
Développement communautaire urbain.
Banlieues > États-Unis.
Développement durable > États-Unis.
Villes > États-Unis > Croissance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns > Growth
City planning
Community development, Urban
Suburbs
Sustainable development
Urbanization
Suburbanisierung
United States
USA
Urbanisation
Community development
Urban renewal
Trends to 2010
Overseas item
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Futurama and the 20th-century American dream
  • The rise of drivable sub-urbia
  • The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else
  • Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth
  • The market rediscovers walkable urbanism
  • Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better
  • Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism
  • Achieving the next American dream : leveling the playing field and implementing walkable urbanism.

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