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Before there was a Congress for the New Urbanism, this book’s principles were nurtured over many years in two extremely supportive environments. One is the University of Miami, where a true school of historically informed architectural practice has developed around the shared objective of building community. The other is the office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., where a talented group of young designers constantly challenges and reinvigorates the principles and techniques behind our work. The projects and drawings of DPZ neighborhoods pictured in this book are of course the product of many hands, and we are more than grateful for their efforts.
We thank the architect and urbanist Peter Brown for his great enthusiasm and intelligence in reviewing our original manuscript. We are also obliged to the author, educator, and critic Witold Rybczynski for his appropriately critical reaction to an early text. Vital data and fact-checking were generously provided by many members of the anti-sprawl community, including Rick Chellman, Robert Gibbs, Ruben Greenberg, Roy Keinitz, Christopher Kent, Walter Kulash, Christopher Leinberger, David Petersen, Patrick Pinnell, Randall Robinson, Peter Swift, and Mike Watkins. Finally, for their tremendous assistance in the completion of this book, we thank Corey Drobnie at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., Neeti Madan at Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency, and our skillful and patient editor, Ethan Nosowsky, at North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
NOTES
3. THE HOUSE THAT SPRAWL BUILT
1
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 1997 report on Geographical Mobility.
2
Edward Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder, Fortress America, 24.
3
Ibid., 7.
4
Peter Calthorpe, The Next American Metropolis, 19.
4. THE PHYSICAL CREATION OF SOCIETY
1
“Parking Lot Pique,” A26.
2
Jonathan Franzen, “First City,” 91.
3
Jonathan Rose, “Violence, Materialism, and Ritual,” 145.
4
Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, 129.
5
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 129.
5. THE AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION MESS
1
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 183.
2
Donald D.T. Chen, “If You Build It, They Will Come,” 4.
3
Ibid., 6.
4
Stanley Hart and Alvin Spivak, The Elephant in the Bedroom, 122.
5
Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation, 129.
6
Hart and Spivak, The Elephant in the Bedroom, 111; James Howard Kunstler, Home from Nowhere, 67, 99.
7
Hart and Spivak, The Elephant in the Bedroom, 166.
6. SPRAWL AND THE DEVELOPER
1
Data from the Survey of Surveys, a comprehensive study compiled by Brooke Warrick’s American Lives.
2
Christopher Kent, Market Performance, 3.
3
Charles Tu and Mark Eppli, Valuing the New Urbanism, 8.
7. THE VICTIMS OF SPRAWL
1
Julie V. Iovine, “From Mall Rat to Suburbia’s Scourge,” 62-63.
2
Stephanie Faul, “How to Crash-Proof Your Teenager,” 8.
3
Ibid.
4
Donna Gaines, Teenage Wasteland, 85-86.
5
William Hamilton, “How Suburban Design Is Failing American TeenAgers,” B1.
6
Jane Holtz Kay, “Stuck in Gear,” D1.
7
Philip Langdon, A Better Place to Live, 11.
8
Brett Hulsey, Sprawl Costs Us All, 8.
8. THE CITY AND THE REGION
1
Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation, 64.
2
Benton MacKaye, The New Exploration, 179.
3
Todd S. Purdum, “Suburban Sprawl Takes Its Place on the Political Landscape,” A1.
9. THE INNER CITY
1
“For Pedestrians, NYC Is Now Even More Forbidding,” A11.
10. HOW TO MAKE A TOWN
1
Keat Foong, “Williams Goes Urban to Differentiate Post,” 42.
2
Data from Christopher A. Kent, P.A., C.R.E.,