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	Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 Author: Dolores Hayden Publisher: Pantheon Books Year: 2003
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ArchitectureWeek— In Building Suburbia Hayden elaborates on the development of communities like: Levittown, a community of standardized homes in Long Island; the Walt Disney Company's Town of Celebration, an exclusive suburb that blurs the line between fantasy and reality in Orlando; and Seaside, Florida, an area designed for "extended porch-sitting, leisurely strolling and sharing time with those you c are most about." She also describes the possibility of the future with MIT's "House_n," the prototype of an interactive digital home. Most of all she emphasizes the benefit of preserving and rejuvinating existing neighborhoods.
	Starting from Zero: Reconstructing New York Author: Michael Sorkin Publisher: Routledge Year: 2003
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ArchitectureWeek— Architect and social critic Michael Sorkin presents his own vision of the future lower Manhattan through a series of essays illustrated with his own designs. He challenges the Ground Zero redevelopment plan recently chosen by New York's establishment insiders.
	Manmade Modular Megastructures Author: Ian Abley and Jonathan Schwinge, editors Publisher: Wiley Academy Press Year: 2006
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ArchitectureWeek— The authors believe that population growth is beneficial and that expansive megacities are an attractive goal for humanity. They argue in favor of the modularized production of megastructures, which they say will advance the art, science, and processes of manufacturing. They argue that by rapidly super-sizing the built environment, society is made less vulnerable to natural or man-made hazards.
	A Field Guide to Sprawl Author: Dolores Hayden Publisher: W. W. Norton Year: 2006
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ArchitectureWeek— By combining informed but breezy text and 75 aerial photographs by Jim Wark, the author explains how the American landscape has been changed and devastated by 20th century excesses., from the "alligator" (an investment that "eats" cash flow, represented here by the vast and ghostly grid of an unbuilt New Mexico suburb) to the "zoomburb" (a suburb on steroids, illustrated here by Arizona's spiraling Sun City). She also explains the powerful political and financial forces that sustain sprawl.
	Utopia Deferred: Writings from Utopie (1967-1978) Author: Jean Baudrillard; Translated by Stuart Kendall Publisher: The MIT Press Year: 2006
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ArchitectureWeek— Seminal essays written by Baudrillard for a journal devoted to a radical leftist critique of architecture, urbanism, and everyday life.
	Behind the Gates: Life, Security and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America Author: Setha Low Publisher: Routledge Year: 2003
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ArchitectureWeek— An account of life in gated communities in which an estimated one in eight Americans live in fear of social diversity. Many who move there are disheartened by the insularity and restrictive rules of the community.

 
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