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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These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl.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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.