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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction vii
 
Acknowledgments xi
 
Part I. Urgent Suburban Challenges
 
Chapter I.1 Disrupt Automobile Dependence 3
 
Roads, Streets, and Stroads 4
 
Can't We Do Something About All This Traffic? 6
 
Parking, Parking. . .and Parking 9
 
Walk, Pedal, Hail, and Scoot 11
 
Autonomous Urbanism? 13
 
Urban Design Tactics for Disrupting and Reducing Automobile Dependence 14
 
Chapter I.2 Improve Public Health 16
 
The Burdens of Disease 17
 
Category 1: Physical Activity, Obesity, and Chronic Disease 18
 
Category 2: Emotional Health and Degree of Community Engagement 19
 
Category 3: Likelihood of Being Killed or Injured in a Vehicle Crash 19
 
Walk This Way: Linking Physical Activity to Physical Design 19
 
Access: To Good Food, and to Healthcare 23
 
Safety: Preventing Preventable Injuries 24
 
Seeing Green: Biophilic Design and Mental Wellness 26
 
Combatting Loneliness: The Importance of Social Connectedness 27
 
Cleaning Up: Reducing Impacts of Polluted Air, Soil, and Water 27
 
Well-Executed Retrofitting Improves Public Health 28
 
Chapter I.3 Support an Aging Population 29
 
A New Name: Perennials 29
 
The Lifelong Community Model 30
 
A Brief History of Retirement Living: Sun City and The Villages of Florida 31
 
Learning Lessons from Retirement Communities 34
 
Social Support: Reinhabiting Ghostboxes and Parking Lots into Amenities 34
 
Housing Choices: Aging-in-Community at Malls, Strip Centers, and Office Parks 36
 
Economic and Wellness Factors: Evolution of the "Granny Flat" and the Household Model 38
 
Post-Car Life for Perennials? 41
 
Chapter I.4 Leverage Social Capital for Equity 42
 
Conceptual Frameworks for Increasing Equity Through Social Capital 43
 
Demographic Trends in Suburbs as Drivers of Change 45
 
A Framework for Asserting the Role of Design in Achieving Social Diversity 47
 
Third Place Redux 48
 
Social Capital in Ethnoburbs 49
 
Providing More Housing Types and Choices, Including Units for Rent 50
 
Protecting Apartments Under Threat 52
 
A Right to the Suburb? The Public Realm 53
 
Retrofitting the Suburban Social Body 55
 
Chapter I.5 Compete for Jobs 56
 
Generational Shift? 57
 
Retrofitting the Office Park and Corporate Campus 60
 
Urbanism as the New Amenity 62
 
Reinhabiting and Regreening the Office Park 64
 
Boosting Small Business by Reinhabiting Dead Retail 65
 
Future Forecast for Jobs Competition 68
 
Chapter I.6 Add Water and Energy Resilience 70
 
Retrofits to Improve Water Quality: From Gray to Green 71
 
Retrofitting Water for Resilience: Too Much Water 74
 
Retrofitting Water for Resilience: Too Little Water 76
 
Retrofitting Suburbia for Energy Resilience 77
 
Adding Resiliency by Design 82
 
Part II. The Case Studies
 
Case Study II.1 Aurora Avenue North 89
Shoreline, Washington
 
Case Study II.2 Hassalo on Eighth and Lloyd 91
Portland, Oregon
 
Case Study II.3 Lake Grove Village 98
Lake Oswego, Oregon
 
Case Study II.4 Phoenix Park Apartments 101
Sacramento, California
 
Case Study II.5 Parkmerced 104
San Francisco, California
 
Case Study II.6 The BLVD 111
Lancaster, California
 
Case Study II.7 TAXI 116
Denver, Colorado
 
Case Study II.8 Guthrie Green 121
Tulsa, Oklahoma
 
Case Study II.9 La Gran Plaza 127
Fort Worth, Texas
 
Case Study II.10 The Domain 1

Über den Autor / die Autorin

About the authors: 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, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley), 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 received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ellen Dunham-Jones, Ellen Williamson Dunham-Jones, Dunham-Jones Ellen, Jun Williamson, June Williamson, June Dunham-Jones Williamson, Williamson June
• Verlag: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781119149170
• ISBN: 978-1-119-14917-0
• Seiten: 272
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Architektur; Landschaftsarchitektur, Architektur, Planung, Architecture, Planning, Bauentwurf, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, landscape design, Building Design