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Well-known author of leading book in this subject area
Beautiful four-color book design to showcase the case studies
Suburban retrofit put in contemporary context of increasing resilience of urban regions
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Vision: A Role for Design in Suburban Resilience
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Exemplar: Building a Better Burb on Long Island
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities.
Williamson 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.
Authors and Affiliations
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Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, New York, USA
June Williamson
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Designing Suburban Futures
Book Subtitle: New Models from Build a Better Burb
Authors: June Williamson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-527-4
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: June Williamson 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-527-4Published: 24 September 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 138
Topics: Environment, general, Cities, Countries, Regions, Urbanism, Urban Ecology, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Architecture, general