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A concluding chapter summarizes the most valuable insights of each landscape tradition and urban design movement. Then, while acknowledging some of the weaknesses and imperfections in the urban forms most closely associated with the republican or civically oriented version of democracy (Olmsted’s public projects, New Urbanism), it restates one of the project’s main theses—now with the book’s full panoply of evidence behind it—that these urban design models outperform the designs most closely associated with individualistic versions of democracy (sprawling suburbs, urban modernism): the former simultaneously preserve individual liberty and promote the civic values and practices required for a healthy democratic society.
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Roulier, S.M. (2018). Conclusion. In: Shaping American Democracy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68810-7_9
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