The option of urbanism : investing in a new American dream / Christopher B. Leinberger.

Author: Leinberger, Christopher B.

Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press, c2008.

ISBN: 9781597261364 (hardcover : alk. paper)
159726136X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781597261371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1597261378 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Description: xi, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Urbanization United States.
Community development, Urban.
Suburbs United States.
Cities and towns United States Growth.
City planning United States.
Sustainable development United States.

Contents: Introduction -- Futurama and the twentieth-century American dream -- The rise of drivable sub-urbia -- The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else -- Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better -- Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism -- Achieving the next American dream : leveling the playing field and implementing walkable urbanism.