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The option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream / Christopher B. Leinberger.
Fine Arts Library HT384.U5 L45 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leinberger, Christopher B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urbanization--United States.
- Urbanization.
- United States.
- Community development, Urban.
- Suburbs--United States.
- Suburbs.
- Cities and towns--United States--Growth.
- Cities and towns.
- Growth.
- City planning--United States.
- City planning.
- Sustainable development--United States.
- Sustainable development.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Highlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for urban 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781597261364
- 159726136X
- 9781597261371
- 1597261378
- OCLC:
- 153772863
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