Road to ruin
Subtitle: an introduction to sprawl and how to cure it
By: Dom Nozzi ; foreword by Victor Dover.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Cities and towns -- United States -- Growth.; City planning -- United States.; Land use -- United States.; Urban transportation -- United States.; Quality of life -- United States.
Description: "What causes sprawl, and are there sensible solutions to its aggravating problems? Since the end of World War II, America has been obsessed with a desire to improve conditions for cars, not people, primarily through enormous subsidies for road widening and construction of free parking.

Not only does this obsession worsen conditions for motorists (at great public expense), it traps communities in a vicious cycle that delivers a declining, sprawling, financially bankrupting future - regardless of the quality of regulations, plans, planners, or elected officials."

"Nozzi delivers an easy-to-follow introduction to sprawl's causes and offers common sense solutions available to communities. The time is ripe for resurrecting the tradition of designing that makes people, not cars, happy. The key is returning to modest, human-scaled streets, parking, land use, and development regulations.

Design principles encouraging walking, bicycling, and mass transit in conjunction with automobile travel are essential to creating livable cities once again. Aimed at people who want an insider's introduction to our road, traffic, and land-use problems, this book is a useful guide to both professional planners and citizens concerned about the future of their own communities."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-173) and index.