Designing sustainable communities
Subtitle: learning from village homes
Contributors: Robert L. Thayer (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: December 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781559636865
Subjects: Environmentalist thought & ideology; Urban & municipal planning; Urban renewal & regeneration; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Land use; Environmental Planning And Management; Real estate development; Political Science; Architecture; Politics/International Relations; Iowa; Planned communities; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Sociology - General; Environmental aspects; Planning
First sentence: Over the past half century, the concentric growth pattern of cities in the United States has produced urbanization in the form of an incoherent sprawl of look-alike residential subdivisions, commercial strips, big-box retailers, and commercial and industrial parks, all physically isolated from one another.