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Suburbia Reimagined - Ageing and Increasing Populations in the Low-Rise City (Hardcover)
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Suburbia Reimagined - Ageing and Increasing Populations in the Low-Rise City (Hardcover)
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Worldwide, more and more people are living in cities, with suburbs
conceived as appendages to the city, rather than being part of the
city system, which is densely populated and offers a full range of
services. But suburbs are not the city spread too thin, and in fact
hold potential for a lived complexity as satisfying as that assumed
to be available in inner cities. Just as the ecological function of
wetlands was ignored by modernist planning, and swamps once-drained
are now recognised as vital to water cycles, suburbs are
increasingly recognised as part of a city's wellbeing with their
own alternative ideology and opportunities for urbanity and
ecological sustainability. Suburbia Reimagined shows how such
subdivision structures can offer new possibilities for sustainably
integrating living between generations and between established and
arriving migrant communities. The authors worked locally and
internationally with university campuses, shopping centres,
hospitals, airports, and other large entities spread through
suburbia, to identify a broad range of suburban situations that
have been modified to ensure that residents have a full access to
amenities and services. The book addresses the history and design
of suburbia, from the post-war soldier settlements of the 40s and
50s to the university hinterlands of Silicon Valley in order to
reappraise the locked potential within such subdivision patterns.
The authors propose a new model forward, examining case studies
ranging from repurposed malls and railways for ecological
sustainability to cul-de-sacs as social units and post-industrial
factory conversions, ultimately showing the nascent patterns in
suburbia that have the potential to support a rich life for all age
groups.
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