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Retrofitting Sprawl : Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form /

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl.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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Talen, Emily, 1958- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • SECTION ONE EXISTING REALITIES
  • ch. 1 From Sprawl to Walkable: How Far Is That? / Emily Talen
  • ch. 2 Strip Development and How to Read It / Brenda Case Scheer
  • ch. 3 Rezoning Montgomery: People, Politics, and Place / Rebecca Lewis
  • ch. 4 The Personal Decisions That Govern Sprawl / Matthew Salenger
  • SECTION TWO CASE STUDIES
  • ch. 5 Urban Design Tactics for Suburban Retrofitting / June Williamson
  • ch. 6 Suburban Downtowns / David Dixon
  • ch. 7 The Public Sector Steps Up
  • And Retrofits a Zombie Subdivision / Wesley Brown
  • ch. 8 Walking to the Strip Mall: Retrofitting Informal Pedestrian Paths / Nico Larco
  • SECTION THREE IMAGINED POSSIBILITIES
  • ch. 9 Rethinking Residential On-Street Parking / Dave Amos
  • ch. 10 Spaces of Indeterminacy: From Thresholds to Ecotones in Retrofitting Sprawl / Nabil Kamel
  • ch. 11 Retrofitting the Cul-de-Sac in Suburban Arizona: A Design Proposal / Christian Solorio
  • ch. 12 Occupy Sprawl, One Cul-de-Sac at a Time / Galina Tachieva.