Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges

A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia 

This amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century’s other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren’t designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence.

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies.

• Written by the authors of the highly influential Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
• Demonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places
• Illustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams

Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. Most of all, it is intended as a useful guide for anyone who seeks to inspire revitalization, justice, and shared prosperity in places they know and care about.

June Williamson is associate professor and department chair at the City College of New York's Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. She is the acclaimed author of Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013).

Ellen Dunham-Jones is professor of architecture and directs the urban design degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was voted one of the world’s 100 most influential urbanists by Planetizen and hosts the Redesigning Cities podcast.

The authors’ first book in the series, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley 2009, 2011, Mandarin 2013), was deemed “the Bible of the retrofitting movement” in the Chicago Tribune. It was featured in The New York Times, CBS Evening News, Urban Land, Architectural Record, and The Architect’s Newspaper, and received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning from the American Association of Publishers.

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Part I. Emerging Suburban Challenges

Chapter I.1          Disrupt Automobile Dependence

Chapter I.2          Improve Public Health

Chapter I.3          Support an Aging Population

Chapter I.4          Leverage Social Capital for Equity

Chapter I.5          Compete for Jobs

Chapter I.6          Add Water and Energy Resilience             

Part II. The Case Studies

Overview

Case Study II.1   Aurora Avenue North, Shoreline, Washington    

Case Study II.2   Hassalo on Eighth and Lloyd, Portland, Oregon

Case Study II.3   Lake Grove Village, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Case Study II.4   Phoenix Park Apartments, Sacramento, California

Case Study II.5   Parkmerced, San Francisco, California

Case Study II.6   The BLVD, Lancaster, California

Case Study II.7   TAXI, Denver, Colorado

Case Study II.8   Guthrie Green, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Case Study II.9   La Gran Plaza, Fort Worth, Texas

Case Study II.10 The Domain, Austin, Texas

Case Study II.11 ACC Highland, Austin, Texas

Case Study II.12 Mueller, east Austin, Texas

Case Study II.13 Promenade of Wayzata, Wayzata, Minnesota

Case Study II.14 Maplewood Mall and Living Streets, Maplewood, Minnesota

Case Study II.15 Baton Rouge Health District, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Case Study II.16 Uptown Circle, Normal, Illinois

Case Study II.17 One Hundred Oaks, Nashville, Tennessee

Case Study II.18 Historic Fourth Ward Park, Atlanta, Georgia

Case Study II.19 Technology Park, Peachtree Corners, Georgia

Case Study II.20 Walker's Bend, Covington, Georgia

Case Study II.21 Downtown Doral, Doral, Florida

Case Study II.22 Collinwood Recreation Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Case Study II.23 The Mosaic District, Merrifield, Virginia

Case Study II.24 South Dakota Ave and Riggs Road, Fort Totten, Washington, DC

Case Study II.25 White Flint / The Pike District, Montgomery County, Maryland

Case Study II.26 The Blairs, Silver Spring, Maryland

Case Study II.27 La Station – Centre Intergénérationnel, Nuns’ Island, Verdun, Quebec

Case Study II.28 Bell Works, Holmdel, New Jersey

Case Study II.29 Wyandanch Rising, Town of Babylon, New York

Case Study II.30 Meriden Green, Meriden, Connecticut

Case Study II.31 Cottages on Greene, East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Case Study II.32 Assembly Square, Somerville, Massachusetts

Index

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