Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia - by June Williamson & Ellen Dunham-Jones (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Change is everywhere in the suburbs of northern America, the built landscapes where most residents of the United States and Canada live. Speculative visions of futuristic solar suburbs powering electric cars and e-bikes make headlines at the same time that mid-century modern ranch house renovations are all the rage. Exurban McMansions fill with multi-generational families while infill housing and backyard cottages meet the needs of smaller households in inner suburban neighborhoods. Established suburbs largely built for young white families are more likely to be populated today by older white faces and younger faces of color"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia </b></p> <p>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.</p> <p><i>Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges</i> 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.</p> <ul> <li>Written by the authors of the highly influential <i>Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs</i></li> <li>Demonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places</li> <li>Illustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams</li> </ul> <p>Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, <i>Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges</i> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p><i>Deeply practical and deeply idealistic, this book opens up important opportunities for suburbs everywhere.</i><br/> <b>--Robert Fishman, author of</b> <b><i>Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia</i></b> <p><i>Masterfully chronicles the innovative spirit of planners, developers, advocates and policy makers retrofitting American car-oriented suburbs into thriving, people-centric communities of opportunity and resilience.</i><br/> <b>--Christopher A. Coes, vice president of Smart Growth America and director of LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors</b> <p><b>A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrates the retrofitting of suburbia</b> <p>This amply-illustrated book, next 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: 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. <p><i>Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges</i> provides summaries of how these challenges manifest in suburbia and detailed case studies of retrofits where they have been successfully addressed. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening demonstrate how innovative design solutions are being implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. <ul> <li>Describes and analyzes a new generation of realized suburban retrofits that integrate urban design strategies to improve health, well-being, and resilience</li> <li>Illustrated in full color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams</li> </ul> <p><i>Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges</i> is full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and opportunities with conventional suburban form. It is valuable for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>About the authors: </b> <p><b>JUNE WILLIAMSON</b> 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 <i>Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb</i> (Island Press, 2013). <p><b>ELLEN DUNHAM-JONES</b> 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 <i>Planetizen and hosts the Redesigning Cities podcast</i>. <p>The authors' first book, <i>Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs</i> (Wiley), was deemed "the Bible of the retrofitting movement" in the <i>Chicago Tribune.</i> It was featured in <i>The New York Times</i>, CBS Evening News, <i>Urban Land, Architectural Record, </i> and received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning.
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