Suburbia has twisted the American dream into a nightmare. The United States now has the most rapes, assaults, murders, and serial killings per capita, by a wide margin, than any other first-world nation. It’s a Sprawl World After All is the first book to link America’s increase in violence and the corresponding breakdown in society with the post-World War II development of suburban sprawl.
Without small towns to bring people together, the unplanned growth of sprawl has left Americans isolated, alienated, and afraid of the strangers that surround them. Suburbia has substituted cars for conversation, malls for main streets, and the artificial community of television for authentic social interaction. This has resulted in dramatically negative impacts on US society, including:
• The transformation of America’s community-oriented small-town sensibilities into an isolated society of strangers burdened by isolation, loneliness, and depression • The emergence of a culture of incivility characterized by extreme individualism and a callous disregard for others • Levels of violence so rampant as to be proclaimed “epidemic” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Advocating that urgent attention be paid to managing development by emulating the smart growth examples of European cities, the book’s final section offers readers tools to rebuild community in their lives as well as in society at large. It offers practical solutions that can improve everyone’s quality of life.
Provocative and thoughtful, It’s a Sprawl World After All also includes a helpful resource listing of organizations committed to making communities more sustainable.
Douglas E. Morris is a freelance writer whose 14 years of experience living outside the United States in a number of safe urban areas has given him unique insights into cross-cultural urban comparisons. He has published numerous articles on the topic in the last seven years.

It's a Sprawl World After All: The Human Cost of Unplanned Growth -- and Visions of a Better Future

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Morris, Douglas E.

Americas

New Society Publishers

Completely updated for 2004 with many new hotels, restaurants, destinations, and new sights. Extensive chapters on the big three - Rome, Florence, and Venice - and exhaustive information on dozens of other top tourist spots, including an in-depth look at Italy's lovely lake region, Tuscany, Umbria, Amalfi Coast, the isle of Capri, Naples, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Genoa, Trieste, Sicily, Sardinia, and more. Detailed food and wine descriptions throughout. 90 maps!

Italy Guide

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Europe

Open Road

Our compact, lightweight Made Easy guides are for those travelers who already know where they're staying and don't want to lug around a huge book during the day. With a sprinkling of restaurant selections arranged by neighborhood, our Made Easy series focuses on taking readers to the best, as well as the most different and unusual, sights and walking tours in each city. Tuck this guide into your pocket and head out for a great day of sightseeing: you'll have over lots of sights at your fingertips, with insider tips on fun shops and beautiful themed walks along beautiful canals, St. Mark's Square, gorgeous cathedrals, and amazing museums. Includes bonus excursions to Verona and nearby Lake Garda. Attractive design features a second color on the inside. Color maps, helpful Italian phrases, and great floating restaurants close by the sights you want to see!

Venice Made Easy (Open Road Travel Guides)

Most travelers go away for two weeks or less, so why is it that every major travel publisher offers huge books where 90% of the content ' like the human brain ' goes unused? Open Road has the solution, the perfect travel guide, because we now offer a choice consumers have not had before: a guide that actually gives readers the content they need for the trip they want! Readers can flip through the book and go to the section that matches how much time they have budgeted, and then go right to that section and see our expert trip ideas. They will also see at a glance which hotels and restaurants are best for them, where the happening nightlife is, the best sports and recreation, and where the most authentic, local shopping can be found. 
 Open Road's Best of Italy gives readers a small number of great choices and itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week and two-week trips to Italy. Find out how to see the best each major city and each region of Italy has to offer. In addition to offering the best things to see and do in Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, Milan, Pisa, the Amalfi Coast and elsewhere, Open Road offers unique trips that no other guide offers, such as our Shop Italia trip, our Art History 101 trip, our coastal-drive-and-beaches trip, our Roman Empire two-week extravaganza, and much more! 
 Best of all, we don't weigh readers down with tons of useless information ' we cut to the chase and give readers short descriptions of the best Italy has to offer.

Open Road's Best of Italy

A travel guide to Italy, updated for 2002 with new hotels, restaurants, destinations and sights. There are extensive chapters on Rome, Florence and Venice, along with information on other top tourist destinations. Travel planning tips are included, as well as descriptions of the food and wine.

Italy Guide, 4th Edition (Open Road Travel Guides)

Discover Florence, alive with history and art, and the wonders of the region's beautiful medieval towns. Quite a few recent novels and travel narrative books exhort their readers to soak up the marvels of Tuscany. Travel to neighbors Tuscany and Umbria has exploded in the past five years, and Italy Guide author Doug Morris takes readers to the very best places in these beautiful places. Florence is fully covered, with dozens of hotel and restaurant options, museums, nightlife, and fantastic shoppingly Beyond Florence, we bring readers the restored Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Palio race in Siena -plus much more in Lucca, Orvieto, Spoleto, Gubbio, San Gimignano, Fiesole, Todi and Perugia. Unearths one secret after another in Florence; Stay in an ancient palazzo and dine in restaurants other guides don't even know about

Tuscany & Umbria Guide

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