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America the Ugly: Searching for a Better Way to Live

Since World War II, suburbia has taken over broad sections of America, squeezing out Main Street USA in favor of cookie-cutter subdivisions, shopping centers, and business parks. Is the New Urbanism—in which the needs of people, not cars, come first—the antidote for suburban sprawl? In this program, ABC News anchor Forrest Sawyer and correspondent Michel McQueen report on the housing paradigm called "traditional neighborhood developments" with architect and town planner Andres Duany, known as the Pied Piper of New Urbanism and creator of communities such as Kentlands, Maryland, and Seaside, Florida. (22 minutes)

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Item#: BVL9318
Copyright date: ©1998
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-1196-4
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-8148-0


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