Repairing the American Metropolis
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Aquiet revolution has been going on in town planning and architectural circles over the last decade. Established zoning and urban design ideas are being questioned and reversed. Urban planners and designers are reviving and reinterpreting ideas that prevailed before the automobile spread our cities apart and hollowed out their cores, before mass transit became the transportation mode for an underclass, before municipalities within a region cut each other’s throats and their own tax bases competing for public revenues, before burgeoning suburbs grew to dominate their metropolitan regions, before television kept us inside our houses, and before telephones and home computers reduced face-to-face interaction in a depleted public realm.
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