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Better burbs.

Publication: Alternatives Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUL-05
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Better burbs.(Suburbs)(Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods)(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods, Dan Chiras and Dave Wann, Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2003.

Suburbs are viewed by many as low-density, large-lot housing subdivisions, conceived for cars more than for people, where water, energy and garbage flow unabated, and where few public, recreational and commercial spaces exist. They are seen as strictly residential areas, built for a rapidly changing but homogeneous population of small families living in a stress-filled culture of material consumption and waste.

In Superbia!, Chiras and Wann cumulate many years of experience with sustainable homes...

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