num_pages: 224
description: Americans are voting with their feet to abandon strip malls and suburban sprawl embracing 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 why government policies have tilted the playing field toward one form of development over the last sixty the drivable suburb. Rooted in the driving forces of the economycar manufacturing and the oil industrythis type of growth has fostered the decline of community contributed to urban decay increased greenhouse gas emissions and contributed to the rise in obesity and asthma. Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for this type of development The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally socially and financially sustainable.
language: English
title: The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
publisher: Island Press