Tuesday, July 31, 2007

New Urbanism again

Wiltold Rybczynski's
Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: ...
follows a New Urbanism-inspired planned community from land purchase to completion.

I think the following is a necessary spoiler, from Penelope Green's review (free login required) in last Sunday's NY Times Book Review: "In the end, and despite the best intentions of the developer and the township, it is Levittown that is the real model for New Daleville."

(The book's first chapter at nytimes.com)

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