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urb, and the hus- the fragmentation band-wife arch- of civic life and itectural team of the radical eco-Andres Duany nomic segrega-and Elizabeth tion that have ac- Plater-Zyberk are companied sub- at the forefront. They see the urban sprawl. ~mericans long postwar suburbs as a grand ex- for community, the authors say, periment gone awry, ruined less and they could have it. The fu-consumers and developers ture, they suggest, does not have than by the ignorance of local to be imagined so much as re-...
Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk
Until very recently, there were fie engineers. These experts only two views of the American molded suburbs for cars, not suburb: You either loved it or people, a catastrophic mistake hated it. In the first camp were whose costs we can measure to- most suburbanites; in the second day in traffic congestion, in air were most writers, planners, and pollution, and in the vast sums of architects. Now a public money lav- new group of crit- ished on roads ics h...