[PDF.90px] How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken

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 | #815509 in Books |  2001-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .65 x6.03 x9.26l,.99 | File type: PDF | 269 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| How Cities Work|By P.K. Ryan|I bought this book because I wanted an introduction to urban studies without having to slog through a dry, academic textbook. What I got was not really an introduction to the subject, but rather a polemic against the current trends of urban planning, and the ever-growing dominance of suburban sprawl and the personal automobile. This is not to say th|From Library Journal|Marshall criticizes New Urbanism for being more about style than substance, but he acknowledges that the more it recognizes the hard truths of regional planning, the more it can become a positive force. A journalist by trade, Marshall wri

Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this hard-hitting, highly readable look at what makes cities work.

Marshall argues that urban life has broken down because of our basic ignorance of the real forces that...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken   |  Alex Marshall. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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