Ed McMahon
“We have two real choices for future development: We can grow more compactly or we can continue to sprawl across the landscape at great economic, environmental, and social cost. Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean show how to overcome opposition to density by focusing on good design. Through photographs and text they show how to neighborhoods of similar density can inspire either love or loathing depending on the quality of design in the buildings, landscape, and streets. If you want to understand opposition to density and how to overcome it, this book is invaluable.”
Don Chen
“There are plenty of reasons why dense development makes sense, but Americans are supposed to hate the ‘d-word,’ right? Campoli and MacLean show us how we can have it all – communities that are beautiful, affordable, efficient, and environmentally friendly. This book should be required reading for anyone who cares about the built environment.”
Bill McKibben
“This book makes an abstract concept – density – completely real and easy to understand, to feel. Planning board members, town zoning officials, or anyone charged with figuring out the vexing future of our physical landscape will profit from reading it, and find pleasure, too. It’s like looking at Google Earth with someone very, very smart sitting next to you doing the play by play.”