Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia
Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2020
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-119-14917-0 (ISBN)
Description
A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia
This amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century's other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren't designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence.
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies.
* Written by the authors of the highly influential Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
* Demonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places
* Illustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams
Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. Most of all, it is intended as a useful guide for anyone who seeks to inspire revitalization, justice, and shared prosperity in places they know and care about.
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June Williamson | Ellen Dunham-Jones
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia
Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges
E-Book
01/2021
1st Edition
Wiley
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June Williamson | Ellen Dunham-Jones
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia
Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges
E-Book
01/2021
1st Edition
Wiley
€59.99
Available for download
Persons
June Williamson is associate professor and department chair at the City College of New York's Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. She is the acclaimed author of Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013).
Ellen Dunham-Jones is professor of architecture and directs the urban design degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was voted one of the world's 100 most influential urbanists by Planetizen and hosts the Redesigning Cities podcast.
The authors' first book in the series, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley 2009, 2011, Mandarin 2013), was deemed "the Bible of the retrofitting movement" in the Chicago Tribune. It was featured in The New York Times, CBS Evening News, Urban Land, Architectural Record, and The Architect's Newspaper, and received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning from the American Association of Publishers.
Content
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Part I. Emerging Suburban Challenges
Chapter I.1 Disrupt Automobile Dependence
Chapter I.2 Improve Public Health
Chapter I.3 Support an Aging Population
Chapter I.4 Leverage Social Capital for Equity
Chapter I.5 Compete for Jobs
Chapter I.6 Add Water and Energy Resilience
Part II. The Case Studies
Overview
Case Study II.1 Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, Washington
Case Study II.2 Hassalo on Eighth and Lloyd, Portland, Oregon
Case Study II.3 Lake Grove Village, Lake Oswego, Oregon
Case Study II.4 Phoenix Park Apartments, Sacramento, California
Case Study II.5 Parkmerced, San Francisco, California
Case Study II.6 The BLVD, Lancaster, California
Case Study II.7 TAXI, Denver, Colorado
Case Study II.8 Guthrie Green, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Case Study II.9 La Gran Plaza, Fort Worth, Texas
Case Study II.10 The Domain, Austin, Texas
Case Study II.11 ACC Highland, Austin, Texas
Case Study II.12 Mueller, east Austin, Texas
Case Study II.13 Promenade of Wayzata, Wayzata, Minnesota
Case Study II.14 Maplewood Mall and Living Streets, Maplewood, Minnesota
Case Study II.15 Baton Rouge Health District, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Case Study II.16 Uptown Circle, Normal, Illinois
Case Study II.17 One Hundred Oaks, Nashville, Tennessee
Case Study II.18 Historic Fourth Ward Park, Atlanta, Georgia
Case Study II.19 Technology Park, Peachtree Corners, Georgia
Case Study II.20 Walker's Bend, Covington, Georgia
Case Study II.21 Downtown Doral, Doral, Florida
Case Study II.22 Collinwood Recreation Center, Cleveland, Ohio
Case Study II.23 The Mosaic District, Merrifield, Virginia
Case Study II.24 South Dakota Ave and Riggs Road, Fort Totten, Washington, DC
Case Study II.25 White Flint / The Pike District, Montgomery County, Maryland
Case Study II.26 The Blairs, Silver Spring, Maryland
Case Study II.27 La Station - Centre Intergénérationnel, Nuns' Island, Verdun, Quebec
Case Study II.28 Bell Works, Holmdel, New Jersey
Case Study II.29 Wyandanch Rising, Town of Babylon, New York
Case Study II.30 Meriden Green, Meriden, Connecticut
Case Study II.31 Cottages on Greene, East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Case Study II.32 Assembly Square, Somerville, Massachusetts
Index