The End of The Street: Sustainable
Growth Within Natural Limits by
David Dobereiner
Landmark For Environmental Designers
Knowing that global land uses require radical rethinking, David Dobereiner
looks at how development ideals can be translated into practical
techniques that conserve natural resources, take advantage of existing
structures, and improve the economic and social dimensions of a
community while considering the financial realities that must be faced.
What needs to be done, he believes, is known and is technically feasible.
David Dobereiner was an associate professor of architecture at the
Syracuse University department of architecture and has also served on
design juries and given seminars and lectures at Harvard University, MIT,
and the University of California Berkeley. In 1990 he won an international
design competition to build bioclimatic houses in the Canary Islands. His
teams submission was the only winning entry from the United States.

Personal Review: The End of The Street: Sustainable Growth
Within Natural Limits by David Dobereiner
The End of The Street: Sustainable Growth Within Natural Limits was
written by my partner so I am prejudiced. but nevertheless, it is an
important book. I had the opportunity to watch David work on the book for
many years and can vouch that he has been ahead of his time in many
areas, especially ecology.
One of his co-workers once said that he could solve a design problem
better and faster than any other architect he knew and I have witnessed
this many times over . In " The End of the Street", he presents many
examples of ecological and architectural ideas, in word and in image.
His views of the sustainable city and of the society of the future are
brilliant and innovative.
David is a dedicated, earnest, quietly intelligent, creative person with a
great deal to donate to the discussion of the climate crisis, to architecture
and to our world.
David became a vegetarian over 55 years years ago when, as an
architectural student in England, he was sent to study slaughter houses.
His love of animals is evident in the book. The description of our cat is
particularly apt. David rides his bike almost everywhere and tries to live as
ecologically as possible so, he does not recommend things that he doesnt
try to practise in his daily life.
I'm not sure if the American public is yet ready to forgo the large single
family house and the 3 cars and the huge stores but with the climate crisis
becoming more imminent,there may be no choice.
David has adapted Matripolis so that other countries with varying
topographies and populations, especially poor countries, might find an
answer for their housing and ecological problems.
Apart from general reading I hope that The End of the Street will be used
as a text ...It is informative, interesting ,timely and well written.
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