Since 1945 North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urbandevelopment literally transforming the landscape of the continent. Thisdevelopment... » 

Since 1945 North Americans have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on urbandevelopment literally transforming the landscape of the continent. Thisdevelopment is disastrous Edmund Fowler maintains because it is inordinatelyexpensive destructive of the environment and disruptive of healthy sociallife and authentic politics. Revealing the connections between our basiccultural beliefs and why we build the way we do Fowler stresses that to buildcities that work we must become aware of how our personal choices contribute tothe form of the built environment. «