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Building the New Urbanism - Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape (Paperback)
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The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has
emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent
decades. It proposes to reform conventional suburban development by
"building community." Building the New Urbanism asks "why new
urbanism now?" to provide the first in-depth sociological
investigation of the emergence of this phenomenon. This volume
situates the growth of New Urbanism in the history of urban and
suburban policy and development. The book builds an account of the
movement's founding and development, linking its progress to the
making of new places. The volume also investigates how the movement
capitalized upon dynamics within architecture, planning, and the
homebuying public to recruit support from among those groups. The
book establishes a framework for analyzing the opportunities and
constraints that confront any effort to change the way we produce
the built environment. Moreover, it reveals how elaborately social
the production of the built environment is and how specific the
material solutions to social conditions must be to resolve this
process. Building the New Urbanism is an accessible volume that
encapsulates and engages the dominant history of American suburbia.
It draws on interviews with key figures, brings the work of
prominent theorists of culture and science into the investigation,
and broadens the focus of urban studies to the metropolitan region.
It will be of particular interest to scholars and students of urban
and suburban development, sociology, geography, and planning.
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