"An essential text for our time . Not only a passionately argued, carefully reasoned dissection of the mess that is becoming man-made America but also a clear program of steps that can be taken to enhance the humanity of both our suburbs and our cities while conserving our rapidly dwindling countryside. Everyone who cares about the future of our American way of life should read this book."-Robert A.M. Stern, Dean, Yale School of Architecture "[This book offers] a clear-eyed, closely reasoned description by its founders of the most important movement in American architecture and city making of this generation: the New Urbanism, based not upon the 'nostalgia' for which it has been unjustly criticized but upon solid architectural, historical, and sociological analysis, and hard common sense."-Vincent Scully "Suburban Nation dissects the physical design of the suburbs brilliantly . [the authors] set forth more clearly than anyone has done in our time the elements of good town planning.

"--Paul Goldberger, The New Yorker "A powerful manifesto . No one has yet produced a work as pithy or likely to win converts to the cause as this briskly written and persuasive brief."--Alexander von Hoffman, The Boston Sunday Globe.