Shifting Suburbs Reinventing Infrastructure for Compact Development

As American suburbs build in more compact ways--with higher-density development clustered in nodes or along corridors and with increasing options for getting around without a car--reworking or rethinking infrastructure can be essential. The Art of Reinvention looks at infrastructure in the context of the development project. It examines the infrastructure that was built and how that infrastructure was paid for, in an effort to illuminate the shape that infrastructure investments are taking and the tools being used to fund and finance them. It provides eight case studies that highlight the infrastructure for redevelopment efforts from across the country.

Rachel MacCleery is Vice President for Infrastructure at the Urban Land Institute. She is responsible for guiding the organization’s approach to national and global transportation, water, and energy policy issues. Casey Peterson is Project Employee for the ULI Infrastructure Initiative, where she supports research for various reports and manages web development. Julie D. Stern is freelance writer and editor, as well as a former senior editor of Urban Land magazine.She has written, contributed to, and edited numerous ULI books, book chapters, reports, case studies, and Urban Land articles.