Description
Book SynopsisAn indispensable book for architects, urban designers and planners, landscape architects, architectural and urban scholars, government officials, developers, environmentalists, and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis.
Trade Review"The reader's urban experience will never be quite the same after experiencing this book. With clarity, precision, and deft detail, Kelbaugh pans the unsustainable design strategies and conceits of an auto-crazed culture, as our human spirit vanishes in the rearview mirror. The author is uniquely well qualified to connect the dots between the habitat we could fashion and the humanity we could reclaim."
* Planning and Zoning News *
"An academic's thoughtful meditation on values that should underlie development—community, sustainable order, and human spirit—and a discerning examination of the proposed remedies."
* New Urban News *
"Kelbaugh describes architects' and urban planners' responses to the problems of 20th-century urbanism and reviews the predicament of modern suburbanization, offering a cognent critique of both modernist and postmodernist paradigms. In contrast to architectural historians who do similar work, however, Kelbaugh also suggests solutions to the spatial problems he documents."
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Table of ContentsForeword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Suburban Sprawl: Paved with Good Intentions
2. Critical Regionalism: An Architecture of Place
3. Typology: An Architecture of Limits
4. New Urbanism: Versus Everyday Urbanism and Post Urbanism
5. Public Policy: What We Should Do A.S.A.P.
Notes
Bibliography
Index
