Suburban nation the rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-280) and index.

1. What Is Sprawl, and Why? -- 2. The Devil Is in the Details -- 3. The House That Sprawl Built -- 4. The Physical Creation of Society -- 5. The American Transportation Mess -- 6. Sprawl and the Developer -- 7. The Victims of Sprawl -- 8. The City and the Region -- 9. The Inner City -- 10. How to Make a Town -- 11. What Is to Be Done -- App. A. The Traditional Neighborhood Development Checklist -- App. B. The Congress for the New Urbanism.

"Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. This book is a lively critical lament, and an entertaining lesson on the distinctions between postwar suburbia - characterized by housing clusters, strip shopping centers, office parks, and parking lots - and the traditional neighborhoods that were built as a matter of course until mid-century. It indicts the design and development industries for the fact that America no longer builds towns. Most important, though, it is a book that also offers us solutions."--BOOK JACKET.