Suburban Remix - Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places

Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use suburbs have a hard time competing.

Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live, work, play, and invest. The case studies and analysis show how compact new urban places are being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis.

About the author

Jason Beske, AICP, is an urban planner and urban designer with public and private experience and a frequent speaker and instructor at planning conferences.

David Dixon, FAIA, leads planning and urban design for Stantec's Urban Places, an interdisciplinary team that helps cities and suburbs alike thrive by harnessing the growing demand for urban life.

Summary

This contributed volume demonstrates the ways that suburbs can create new urban places and thrive.

Product details

• Authors: Jason Beske, Jason (EDT)/ Dixon Beske, Jason Lee Dixon Beske
• Assisted by: Jason Beske (Editor), Jason Lee Beske (Editor), David Dixon (Editor), David Debs Dixon (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781610918633
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-863-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Regional Planning, TRANSPORTATION / Public Transportation, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Transport planning and policy, Buses, trams and commercial vehicles: general interest, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Transport planning & policy, Buses, trams & commercial vehicles: general interest