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SUBURBAN NATION

By Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck

North Point Press, 289 pages, $30

In this vigorous and detailed critique of suburbia, town planners Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck call for less predictable architecture and more traditional neighborhoods. They lament, “Life once spent enjoying the richness of community has increasingly become life spent alone behind the wheel.”