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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, Updated Edition

ISBN: 978-0-470-93432-6
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304 pages
March 2011
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Foreword: by Richard Florida.

2011 Update.

Preface.

Introduction.

Acknowledgments.

PART I. THE ARGUMENT.

Chapter 1. Instant Architecture, Instant Cities, and Incremental Metropolitanism.

PART II. THE EXAMPLES.

Chapter 2. Retrofitting Garden Apartments and Residential Subdivisions to Address Density and the New Demographics.

Chapter 3. Residential Case Study: Changes to “Levittown”.

Chapter 4. Retrofitting Social Life Along Commercial Strips.

Chapter 5. Strips Case Study: Mashpee Commons, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Chapter 6. From Regional Malls to New Downtowns Through Mixed-Use and Public Space.

Chapter 7. Mall Case Study: Cottonwood, Holladay, Utah.

Chapter 8. Mall Case Study: Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado.

Chapter 9. Edge City Infill: Improving Walkability and Interconnectivity.

Chapter 10. Edge City Case Study: Downtown Kendall/Dadeland, Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Chapter 11. Suburban Offi ce and Industrial Park Retrofits to Recruit the Creative Class.

Chapter 12. Office Park Case Study: University Town Center, Prince George’s County, Maryland.

Epilogue: The Landscape of Incremental Metropolitanism in 2050.

Notes.

Image Credits.

Index.

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