Discover the transformative potential of suburbia with 'Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges', a vital resource for urban planners, architects, and community advocates. This brand-new book features 32 insightful case studies illustrating innovative retrofitting strategies that breathe new life into defunct shopping malls, redundant parking lots, and outdated suburban designs. Each study showcases bold solutions for pressing issues such as public health improvement, resilience against climate change, social equity enhancements, and tackling the challenges of an aging population.

This well-illustrated collection highlights successful urban design approaches tailored to adapt to changing market conditions across diverse northern American landscapes. Featuring a comprehensive analysis of trends in suburban redevelopment, the book discusses both modest interventions and ambitious projects that demonstrate how dynamic redesign can address our most urgent societal needs. Readers will find a wealth of replicable lessons accompanied by stunning visuals, including full-color photographs, detailed maps, and insightful diagrams.

By focusing on practical solutions and creative responses to ongoing issues, 'Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia' serves as an indispensable guide for anyone looking to understand and implement effective strategies for the revitalization of suburban spaces.

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Condition: BRAND NEW. ISBN: 9781119149170. Year: 2020. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US). Pages: 272.

Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781119149170
Year: 2020
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
Pages: 272


Description:


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