Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb - Couverture rigide

Williamson, June

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1610911970 ISBN 13 : 9781610911979

Editeur : Island Press, 2013

Synopsis

Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island, she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs, but those emerging elsewhere with global urbanisation. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend, highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful 'Build a Better Burb' competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. 'Designing Suburban Futures' offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant, new suburban form.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

June Williamson is Associate Professor in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York. She is co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of Retrofitting Suburbia (9780470934326). She lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610911970
• ISBN 13: 9781610911979
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
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• Personne responsable: non disponible