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Title: Skip it.
Review: Mr. Martinson makes a few points over and over in this book. He enjoyed his time growing up in suburbia. Other people seem to love suburbia because there are so many of them living there. And it is wrong, according to Mr. Martinson, to criticize the way people choose to live, even if their behavior does the country as a whole and the world harm by the waste of resources and the overall degradation of life. He ridicules books that criticize the automobile and yet says almost nothing about increasing commuting time that more and more Americans put in in order to live in the suburbs. He implies that anyone who thinks Americans could live more efficiently if they were more densely populated wants nothing but 'big cities.' And the most insulting part is the premise that if many people are doing it now, it must be ok. Skip it and read A Better Place to Live, instead.
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