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One of the foremost practitioners of New Urbanism, Peter Calthorpe, an urban designer and architect based in Berkeley, California, offers one of the most coherent and persuasive arguments for moving the United States away from sprawl and toward more compact, mixed-use, economically diverse, and ecologically sound communities. This book presents 24 of Calthorpe's regional urban plans, in which towns are organized so that residents can be less dependent upon their cars and can walk, bike, or take public transportation between work, school, home, and shopping. This book is not just for architects and urban planners, but for all concerned citizens interested in developing a cohesive, feasible vision of the sustainable city of the future.

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Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies.

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The American Dream is an evolving image and the American Metropolis is its ever-changing reflection. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
core commercial area, feeder bus network, connector streets, new growth areas, structured parking, infill sites, transit stop, walkable neighborhoods, net acre, ancillary units, secondary areas, urban infill, light rail stop, light industrial uses, surface parking lots, parking standards, auto use, civic uses, travel behavior, transit use, transit ridership, pedestrian connections, local destinations, pedestrian scale, street connections Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Main Street, San Diego, Bay Area, Laguna West, San Francisco, Urban Growth Boundary, American Dream, Urban Growth Boundaries, Placer Villages, Sacramento County, San Jose, West Sacramento, General Plan, Hour of the Day, Mission Valley, Pedestrian Pockets, Capital River Park, New Jersey New!
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