UID:
almafu_9959231660802883
Format:
1 online resource (272 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8203-4819-8
Content:
These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited "recycling the suburbs" as the second of "Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now." While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book presents an overview of current thinking on ways to fix, repair, and retrofit existing sprawl. Chapters by planners, geographers, designers, and architects present research grounded in diverse locales
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Introduction. Retrofitting Sprawl; SECTION ONE. EXISTING REALITIES; Chapter 1. From Sprawl to Walkable: How Far Is That?; Chapter 2. Strip Development and How to Read It; Chapter 3. Rezoning Montgomery: People, Politics, and Place; Chapter 4. The Personal Decisions That Govern Sprawl; SECTION TWO. CASE STUDIES; Chapter 5. Urban Design Tactics for Suburban Retrofitting; Chapter 6. Suburban Downtowns; Chapter 7. The Public Sector Steps Up-And Retrofits a Zombie Subdivision; Chapter 8. Walking to the Strip Mall: Retrofitting Informal Pedestrian Paths
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SECTION THREE. IMAGINED POSSIBILITIES Chapter 9. Rethinking Residential On-Street Parking; Chapter 10. Spaces of Indeterminacy: From Thresholds to Ecotones in Retrofitting Sprawl; Chapter 11. Retrofitting the Cul-de-Sac in Suburban Arizona: A Design Proposal; Chapter 12. Occupy Sprawl, One Cul-de-Sac at a Time; Contributors; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-4545-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8203-4544-X
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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