04480nam a22005415i 4500 978-1-61091-527-4 DE-He213 20210617215611.0 cr nn 008mamaa 130924s2013 xxu| s |||| 0|eng d 9781610915274 978-1-61091-527-4 10.5822/978-1-61091-527-4 doi GE1-350 RN bicssc SCI026000 bisacsh RN thema 333.7 23 Williamson, June. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Designing Suburban Futures [electronic resource] : New Models from Build a Better Burb / by June Williamson. 1st ed. 2013. Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2013. XXII, 138 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Preface -- Foreword; Ellen Dunham-Jones -- Introduction -- Context for Change -- Design Culture Responds to Sprawl: 1960s to 2010s -- Better Suburban Futures -- Build a Better Burb 2010: Instructions and Commentary -- Winning and Noteworthy Competition Schemes. Sited in the Setback: Increasing Density in Levittown. Upcycling 2.0. AgIsland. Building C-Burbia. SUBHUB Transit System. Long Division. LIRR: Long Island Radically Rezoned. Noteworthy Competition Schemes -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: New Roles for Architecture and Urban Design. A conversation with Kazys Varnelis -- Selected Bibliography -- Credits -- Index. Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island, she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs, but also those emerging elsewhere with global urbanization. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend, highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. Designing Suburban Futures offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant, new suburban form. It will be especially useful for urban designers, architects, landscape architects, land use planners, local policymakers and NGOs, citizen activists, students of urban design, planning, architecture, and landscape architecture. Environment. Architecture. Urban planning. City planning. Urban ecology (Biology). Regional planning. Environment, general. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/U00009 Cities, Countries, Regions. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K14000 Urbanism. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K18006 Urban Ecology. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/L19160 Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15000 Architecture, general. https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/K0000X SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9781597264181 https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-527-4 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE Earth and Environmental Science (SpringerNature-11646) Earth and Environmental Science (R0) (SpringerNature-43711)