{"product_id":"sprawl-and-suburbia-a-harvard-design-magazine-reader-volume-2-9780816647552","title":"Sprawl and Suburbia: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader Volume 2","description":"Sprawl is the single most significant and urgent issue in American land use at the turn of the twenty-first century. Efforts to limit and reform sprawl through legislative \"Smart Growth\" initiatives have been enacted around the country while the neotraditionalist New Urbanism has been embraced by many architects and urban planners. Yet most Americans persist in their desire to live farther and farther away from urban centers, moving to exurbs made up almost entirely of single-family residential houses and stand-alone shopping areas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSprawl and Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e brings together some of the foremost thinkers in the field to present in-depth diagnosis and critical analysis of the physical and social realities of exurban sprawl. Along with an introduction by Robert Fishman, these essays call for architects, urban planners, and landscape designers to work at mitigating the impact of sprawl on land and resources and improving the residential and commercial built environment as a whole. In place of vast residential exurbs, these writers offer visions of a fresh urbanism--appealing and persuasive models of life at greater density, with greater diversity, and within genuine communities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sprawl losing the support of suburban citizens themselves as economic, environmental, and social costs are being paid, \u003ci\u003eSprawl and Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e appears at a moment when design might achieve some critical influence over development--if architects and planners accept the challenge. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors: Mike Davis, Ellen Dunham-Jones, Peter Hall, David Harvey, Jerold S. Kayden, Matthew J. Kiefer, Alex Krieger, Andrew Ross, James S. Russell, Mitchell Schwarzer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam S. Saunders is editor of \u003ci\u003eHarvard Design Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and assistant dean for external relations at the Harvard Design School. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eModern Architecture: Photographs by Ezra Stoller\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Fishman is professor of architecture and urban planning at the Taubman College of Architecture, University of Michigan. He is author of \u003ci\u003eBourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816647552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.04w x 0.34d","brand":"William Saunders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52379388608693,"sku":"9780816647552","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_f569d7b1-1283-4d48-83b4-4015ed2f506f.jpg?v=1774372603","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sprawl-and-suburbia-a-harvard-design-magazine-reader-volume-2-9780816647552","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}