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Blog Entries by Frank Gruber from 01/2010

Half a Bridge: A Review of "The Smart Growth Manual" by Andres Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon

| Posted 01.05.2010 | Books
Read More: Sprawl, Andres Duany, New Urbanism, Urban Planning, Smart Growth, Urbanism, Urban Sprawl, Books News

If The Smart Growth Manual used images that were more urban, it would have an easier time facilitating a dialogue between the warring camps of urbanists.

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Metropolitan Urbanism? A Review of Grid/Street/Place by Nathan Cherry (with Kurt Nagle)

| Posted 01.29.2010 | Los Angeles
Read More: American Planning Association, Convulsive Urbanism, Books News, L.A. Live, Rtkl Associates, Urban Planning, Sprawl, Los Angeles, Urbanism, Los Angeles News

Although the dynamism (and the dysfunction) of LA is characteristically expressed in small and often idiosyncratic projects spread around the grid, the book is weighted in favor of large developments.

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