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Designing Suburban Futures

New Models from Build a Better Burb

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. June Williamson

    1. Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, New York, USA

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Vision: A Role for Design in Suburban Resilience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Context for Change

      • June Williamson
      Pages 2-23

    3. Design Culture Responds to Sprawl: 1960s to 2010s

      • June Williamson
      Pages 24-34

    4. Better Suburban Futures

      • June Williamson
      Pages 38-49

  3. Exemplar: Building a Better Burb on Long Island

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Build a Better Burb 2010: Instructions and Commentary

      • June Williamson
      Pages 52-61

    3. Winning and Noteworthy Competition Schemes

      • June Williamson
      Pages 62-119

    4. Conclusion

      • June Williamson
      Pages 120-121

    5. Epilogue: New Roles for Architecture and Urban Design

      • June Williamson
      Pages 122-126

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 128-137
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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

  • Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, New York, USA

    June Williamson

About the author

June Williamson is Associate Professor in the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York and co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia with Ellen Dunham Jones.

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