Retrofitting Suburbia : urban design solutions for redesigning suburbs. / txt
Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson.
- xvi, 256 p. ill. (some col.) ; maps (some col.) ; 21 cm. book
Include index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-247) and index.
Contents: Preface vi -- Introduction viii -- Urban Versus Suburban Form viii -- Why Retrofits? Why Now? xii -- Organization of The Book xiii -- Acknowledgments xv -- Part I: The Argument -- Chapter 1 / Instant Architecture, Instant Cities, And Incremental Metropolitanism 2 -- Instant Cities and Suburban Retrofits 2 -- Instant Architecture, Instant Public Space 6 -- Incremental Metropolitanism 9 -- How Sustainable? How Urban? 12 -- Part II: The Examples -- Chapter 2 / Retrofitting Garden Apartments and Residential Subdivision to Address Density and The New Demographics 16 -- Never Homogenous? The New Suburban History 17 -- Demographic Changes 18 -- Retrofitting Policy 20 -- Retrofitting Residential Subdivisions 22 -- Revising the Rules: Kansas City First Suburbs Coalition and DADUs In Seattle 23 -- Connect the Culs-De-Sac: Apollo Beach and Laurel Bay 25 -- From Subdivision to Edge City: Greenway Plaza 27 -- From Subdivision To TOD: MetroWest 27 -- Reintegrating Garden Apartment Buffer Sites 29 -- Accommodating New Immigrants: Brookside Apartments and Gulfton 30 -- Market Devaluation: Park Forest Courts 32 -- Gentrification Infill: Gramercy and The Colony 34 -- Tomorrow’s Suburbanites 35 -- Chapter 3 / Residential Case Study: Changes To “Levittown” - The Earliest Postwar Suburbs Are Sixty Years Old 44 -- Demographic Diversity in Levittown, Willingboro, And Park Forest 46 -- Failure and Redevelopment of Retail Properties 51 -- Resistance to Change in Residential Patterns 52 -- Diversifying Housing Choices 54 -- Path Toward Further Change 56 -- Chapter 4 / Retrofitting Social Life Along Commercial Strips 59 -- Third Places in Suburbia? 59 -- History of The Strip and Its Building Types 62 -- The Drive Out of Town 62 -- Adaptive Reuse of Big Boxes and Strip Malls for Community Serving Activities 67 -- Reviving Ghostboxes 67 -- From Strip Malls to Community Anchors: La Grande Orange And Camino Nuevo 70 -- Retrofitting Shopping Centers: The Middle Scale 72 -- Regreening: Phalen 72 -- Public Sector Strategies to Support Retrofitting 75 -- Santana Row’s Rough Road to Riches 78 -- From Strip Centers to New Downtown: Temple Terrace 80 -- Retrofitting the Corridors Themselves: Designing for Mobility for Access or Both 81 -- The Transit Boulevard and The Urban Network 82 -- Return of The Multiway Boulevard: Cathedral City 84 -- Rezoning Corridors: Three Examples in Atlanta 87 -- Transit on A Corridor Through Form Based Codes: Columbia Pike 90 -- Retrofitting the Urban Structure of Commercial Strips 92 -- Social Infrastructure 9 -- Chapter 5 / Strips Case Study: Mashpee Commons, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 95 -- Attaching to A Well Established Fragment of Urbanism -- Site History 98 -- Morphological Analysis 102 -- From Strip to Downtown: Mashpee’s Third Place 105 -- Chapter 6 / From Regional Malls to New Downtown Through Mixed Use and Public Space 108 -- The Significance of Public Space 110 -- A Brief History of Malls 112 -- Dead and Dying Malls 114 -- Changing Uses to Meet Local Needs 119 -- Downsizing: Park Forest and Willingboro 119 -- From Enclosed Malls to New Downtowns 123 -- From Dead Mall to New Downtown: Mizner Park 123 -- Turning A Mall Inside Out: Winter Park Village 126 -- Incremental Metropolitanism Around Denver: Citycenter Englewood 129 -- Infilling Around A Live Mall 134 -- You Can Save The Tree and Have Tiffany’s Too: Walnut Creek 134 -- From Mall to Transit Severed University and Office Tower: Surrey Central City 136 -- The Role and Form of Mixed Use and Public Space in Retrofitted Malls 138 -- Chapter 7 / Mall Case Study: Cottonwood, Holladay, Utah 140 -- From Concept to Press Release -- Repositioning Mall Properties 142 -- Market Study and Mini Charrette 143 -- Charrette 146 -- Benefits of The Charrette 151 -- Chapter 8 / Mall Case Study: Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado 154 -- “Enrich Your Life, Not Your Lawn” In Lakewood’s New Downtown -- “Greening”: Finding the Funding for Sustainable Urbanism 159 -- Morphological Analysis 162 -- From Bunkers to Streetscapes: Public Space 166 -- New Uses / New Users 170 -- Chapter 9 / Edge City Infill: Improving Walkability and Interconnectivity 172 -- Redirecting Edge Cities 173 -- The Evolution of Edge and Edgeless Cities 177 -- Edgeless Cities 179 -- Infilling Edge Cities 180 -- Addison Circle 180 -- Legacy Town Center 182 -- Perimeter Place 183 -- How Effective Are the Infill Strategies? 186 -- Edge-City Retrofits Across Multiple Parcels 187 -- The Future of Edge Cities 191 -- Chapter 10 / Edge City Case Study: Downtown Kendall / Dadeland, Miami-Dade County, Florida 192 -- Zoning the Creation of New Blocks and Squares Over Multiple Parcels -- Regulating an Urbanizing Framework 196 -- Morphological Analysis: 198 -- Demographic Analysis: Reaping the Benefits of Interconnectivity 201 -- Chapter 11 / Suburban Office and Industrial Park Retrofits to Recruit the Creative Class 203 -- Suburban Industrial Parks, Office Parks, And Corporate Campuses 204 -- Nonconcentric Patterns of Commuting 206 -- Polycentric Atlanta: Bellsouth In Lenox Park, Midtown, And Lindbergh City Center 207 -- Recruiting the Creative Class 209 -- Creative Campus: Skysong 211 -- Retrofitting Suburban Workplaces 211 -- Glass Box Lofts: Cloud 9 Sky Flats 212 -- Lofts on The Interstate: Upper Rock 214 -- Retrofitting Industrial Parks 216 -- Instant Urbanism: Westwood Station 217 -- Chapter 12 / Office Park Case Study: University Town Center, Prince George’s County, Maryland 219 -- Finishing A Job Started Almost Half A Century Ago -- Transit Provides Opportunity for Infilling with Mixed Use 222 -- Morphological Analysis 225 -- Demographic Analysis: Appeal to The Creative Class? 228 -- Epilogue: The Landscape of Incremental Metropolitanism In 2050 / 230 -- Notes 234 -- Image Credits 248 -- Index 249 --
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