Repairing the American Metropolis is based on Douglas Kelbaugh s Common Place Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design first published in 1997 It is more timely and significant than ever with new text charts and images on architecture sprawl and New Urbanism a movement that he helped pioneer Theory and policies have been revised refined updated and developed as compelling ways to plan design the built environment

This is an indispensable book for architects urban designers and planners landscape architects architecture and urban planning students and scholars government officials developers environmentalists and citizens interested in understanding and shaping the American metropolis

At once a primer on how architecture urban design and metropolitan planning can be pursued in a key that resonates with sustainability and wise stewardship of the environment and a compelling polemic on why such thinking will produce better places to pursue our livelihoods and live out our lives Alex Krieger Harvard Graduate School of Design

Repairing the American Metropolis is written with such exquisite clarity and confidence it is easy to overlook that Doug Kelbaugh is arguing for nothing less than a fundamental reconsideration of contemporary American architecture and planning Don Prowler Princeton University

This is the most sophisticated critical presentation of the New Urbanism to be found anywhere Andres Duany Duany Plater Zyberk Company