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The Regional City
by Peter Calthorpe, William Fulton
from Island Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Community is not everything
This is yet another book on a New Urbanist idea. This one describes the idea of transit oriented communties. These are relatively dense planned communities that try to maintain what is seen as the essentials of small community life. The density and distribution of these communities make them amenable to public transport. However more emphasis is placed on the development of community. Shopping facilities are centralized and made accessible to pedestrians. Public buildings and public space like squares... more info
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forthcoming review in the NYTBR, February 18th
There is a very informative review by Suzannah Lessard in the February 18th issue of the New York Times Book Review. Not only does she provide interesting background to the issues surrounding urban growth in America, she also defines what these issues mean to us today, and the contribution this book makes to our understanding of the built world around us.
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