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Anthony Flint: This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
Bill Bishop: The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
Bill McKibben: Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Christopher Lasch: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
Daniel McGinn: House Lust: America's Obsession With Our Homes
James Howard Kunstler: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
James Howard Kunstler: HOME FROM NOWHERE: REMAKING OUR EVERYDAY WORLD FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Kenneth T. Jackson: Crabgrass Frontier : The Suburbanization of the United States
Peter Katz: The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community
Robert A. Caro: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert E. Lang: Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities (James a Johnson Metro)
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- Community Concepts
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Archives
- January 3, 2010 - January 9, 2010
- December 27, 2009 - January 2, 2010
- December 20, 2009 - December 26, 2009
- December 13, 2009 - December 19, 2009
- December 6, 2009 - December 12, 2009
- November 29, 2009 - December 5, 2009
- November 22, 2009 - November 28, 2009
- November 15, 2009 - November 21, 2009
- November 8, 2009 - November 14, 2009
- November 1, 2009 - November 7, 2009
January 2010
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