Smart Growth explains what the UK must do to improve the quality of life in an overcrowded land. Urban sprawl is unsustainable in an age of climate change and peak oil. But for 100 years, the UK's planning policies have been based on ideals of low-density living and attitudes that favor the individual over community, creating car-dependent lifestyles and destroying the beloved countryside. This book argues that the UK should look to America—a country that embraced urban sprawl and car dependency on a far grander scale than the UK ever did—to find answers to the problem to rapid growth and community planning, The Smart Growth America movement is steering a course toward better-designed, compact cities and rail-based transit systems, thereby restoring communities ruined by decades of suburban insularity.