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Designing Suburban Futures - New Models from Build a Better Burb (Hardcover, 2nd None Ed.)
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Designing Suburban Futures - New Models from Build a Better Burb (Hardcover, 2nd None Ed.)
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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 also those emerging elsewhere with global
urbanization.
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.
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Designing Suburban Futures" offers concrete but visionary
strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant,
new suburban form. It will be especially useful for urban
designers, architects, landscape architects, land use planners,
local policymakers and NGOs, citizen activists, students of urban
design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture.
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