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How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Road Not Taken.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, June, 2001 by MARETH, JOANNA
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How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Road Not Taken, by Alex Marshall. University of Texas Press, 243 pages, $24.95.
Celebration, Florida, is a picturesque town built from the ground up by the Walt Disney Corporation and planners Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, pioneers of New Urbanism. By some measures, Celebration is a success. It has a thriving downtown retail district and homes that sell for seven times what similarly sized houses in neighboring towns go for. What it doesn't have, according to Alex Marshall in How Cities Work, is any real claim to urbanism, ...
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