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100	1		_aWilliamson, June. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDesigning Suburban Futures _h[electronic resource] : _bNew Models from Build a Better Burb / _cby June Williamson.
264		1	_aWashington, DC : _bIsland Press/Center for Resource Economics : _bImprint: Island Press, _c2013.
300			_aXXII, 138 p. _bonline resource.
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505	0		_aPreface -- 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.
520			_aSuburbs 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.
650		0	_aEnvironment.
650		0	_aRegional planning.
650		0	_aUrban planning.
650		0	_aArchitecture.
650		0	_aCity planning.
650		0	_aUrban ecology (Biology).
650	1	4	_aEnvironment.
650	2	4	_aEnvironment, general.
650	2	4	_aCities, Countries, Regions.
650	2	4	_aUrbanism.
650	2	4	_aUrban Ecology.
650	2	4	_aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
650	2	4	_aArchitecture, general.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9781597264181
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-527-4
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