{"product_id":"retrofitting-suburbia-updated-edition-isbn-9780470934326","title":"Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition","description":"Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions.  \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia\u003c\/b\u003e was named winner in the Architecture \u0026amp; Urban Planning category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) awarded by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface vi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntroduction viii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Versus Suburban Form viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy Retrofits? Why Now? xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganization of the Book xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 Instant Architecture, Instant Cities, and Incremental Metropolitanism 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstant Cities and Suburban Retrofits 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstant Architecture, Instant Public Space 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncremental Metropolitanism 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Sustainable? How Urban? 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 Retrofitting Garden Apartments and Residential Subdivisions to Address Density and the New Demographics 16\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNever Homogenous? The New Suburban History 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemographic Changes 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Policy 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Residential Subdivisions 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevising the Rules: Kansas City First Suburbs Coalition and DADUs in Seattle 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConnect the Culs-de-sac: Apollo Beach and Laurel Bay 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Subdivision to Edge City: Greenway Plaza 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Subdivision to TOD: MetroWest 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReintegrating Garden Apartment Buffer Sites 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAccommodating New Immigrants: Brookside Apartments and Gulfton 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarket Devaluation: Park Forest Courts 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGentrification Infill: Gramercy and The Colony 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTomorrow’s Suburbanites 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Residential Case Study: Changes to “Levittown” 44\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Earliest Postwar Suburbs Are Sixty Years Old Demographic Diversity in Levittown, Willingboro, and Park\u003cbr\u003e Forest 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailure and Redevelopment of Retail Properties 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResistance to Change in Residential Patterns 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDiversifying Housing Choices 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaths Toward Further Change 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 Retrofitting Social Life Along Commercial Strips 59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird Places in Suburbia? 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory of the Strip and Its Building Types 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Drive out of Town 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdaptive Reuse of Big Boxes and Strip Malls for Community-Serving Activities 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReviving Ghostboxes 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Strip Malls to Community Anchors: La Grande Orange and Camino Nuevo 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Shopping Centers: The Middle Scale 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegreening: Phalen 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Sector Strategies to Support Retrofitting 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSantana Row’s Rough Road to Riches 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Strip Centers to New Downtown: Temple Terrace 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting the Corridors Themselves: Designing for Mobility or Access or Both 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Transit Boulevard and the Urban Network 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn of the Multiway Boulevard: Cathedral City 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRezoning Corridors: Three Examples in Atlanta 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInducing Transit on a Corridor Through Form-Based Codes: Columbia Pike 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting the Urban Structure of Commercial Strips 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSocial Infrastructure 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 Strips Case Study: Mashpee Commons, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAttaching to a Well-Established Fragment of Urbanism Site History 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorphological Analysis 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Strip to Downtown: Mashpee’s Third Place 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 From Regional Malls to New Downtowns Through Mixed-Use and Public Space 108\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Significance of Public Space 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Brief History of Malls 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDead and Dying Malls 114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChanging Uses to Meet Local Needs 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDownsizing: Park Forest and Willingboro 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Enclosed Malls to New Downtowns 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Dead Mall to New Downtown: Mizner Park 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurning a Mall Inside Out: Winter Park Village 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIncremental Metropolitanism Around Denver: CityCenter Englewood 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfilling Around a Live Mall 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou Can Save the Tree and Have Tiffany’s, Too: Walnut Creek 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Mall to Transit-Served University and Office Tower: Surrey Central City 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Role and Form of Mixed-Use and Public Space in Retrofitted Malls 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Mall Case Study: Cottonwood, Holladay, Utah 140\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Concept to Press Release\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepositioning Mall Properties 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarket Study and Mini-Charrette 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharrette 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBenefits of the Charrette 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Mall Case Study: Belmar, Lakewood, Colorado 154\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Enrich Your Life, Not Your Lawn” in Lakewood’s New Downtown “Greening”: Finding the Funding for Sustainable Urbanism 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorphological Analysis 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Bunkers to Streetscapes: Public Space 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Uses\/New Users 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 Edge City Infill: Improving Walkability and Interconnectivity 172\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedirecting Edge Cities 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Edge and Edgeless Cities 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdgeless Cities 179\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfilling Edge Cities 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAddison Circle 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLegacy Town Center 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerimeter Place 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow Effective Are the Infill Strategies? 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdge-City Retrofits Across Multiple Parcels 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Future of Edge Cities 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 Edge City Case Study: Downtown Kendall\/Dadeland, Miami-Dade County, Florida 192\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eZoning the Creation of New Blocks and Squares over Multiple Parcels Regulating an Urbanizing Framework 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorphological Analysis 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemographic Analysis: Reaping the Benefits of Interconnectivity 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Suburban Office and Industrial Park Retrofits to Recruit the Creative Class 203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuburban Industrial Parks, Office Parks, and Corporate Campuses 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNonconcentric Patterns of Commuting 206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolycentric Atlanta: Bellsouth in Lenox Park, Midtown, and Lindbergh City Center 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecruiting the Creative Class 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreative Campus: SkySong 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Suburban Workplaces 211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlass Box Lofts: Cloud 9 Sky Flats 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLofts on the Interstate: Upper Rock 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Industrial Parks 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstant Urbanism: Westwood Station 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 Office Park Case Study: University Town Center, Prince George’s County, Maryland 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFinishing a Job Started Almost Half a Century Ago Transit Provides Opportunity for Infilling with Mixed Use 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMorphological Analysis 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDemographic Analysis: Appeal to the Creative Class? 228\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: The Landscape of Incremental Metropolitanism in 2050 230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes 234\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eImage Credits 248\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 249\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eEllen Dunham-Jones, AIA,\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of architecture and urban design in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. An award-winning registered architect, she has published extensively on urban design and criticism and is on the board of directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJune Williamson, LEED AP,\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of architecture at The City College of New York. A registered architect, she has contributed to numerous urban design projects. Her writing has been published in numerous journals and, in 2010, she conceived the design competition \"Build a Better Burb.\"\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"THE BIBLE OF THE RETROFITTING MOVEMENT.\" —Blair Kamin, architecture critic, Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA guide, with multiple case studies, for redeveloping out-of-date suburban developments into more urban, sustainable places\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe winner in the Architecture \u0026amp; Urban Planning category of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe last fifty years have been dominated by the reproduction of sprawl development patterns. The big project for the next fifty years will be retro-fitting sprawl into sustainable places. This edition of Retrofitting Suburbia, which includes a Foreword by Richard Florida and new updated Introduction by the authors, is a comprehensive guidebook for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and sustainable places.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia in the press:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia was featured in Time magazine's March 23, 2009 cover story on \"Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In their book, architects and academics Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson . . . recommend urban strategies to solve suburban problems. The book's numerous case studies show that this strategy has its merits. Increasing density, transit, and walkability often (though not always) can help to revitalize struggling communities.\" — Allison Arieff, The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Why, where, and how should suburbia be retrofitted? This content-rich, well-written book provides compelling answers. The book's analysis and commentaries are rigorous and comprehensive, predicated not on academic theory but on planning and development history, social science, demographics, market conditions, and regulatory considerations.\" — Architectural Record\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Architects Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson confront the challenge of redeveloping abandoned suburban retail space in their new book, Retrofitting Suburbia. The detailed text also explores several creative solutions in which progressive planning has reinvigorated suburban communities nationwide.\" — Popular Mechanics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Hats off to Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson. Their work is helping us chart a way to better suburbs, better communities, and a better, more fulfilling way of life. Wielding careful research, eye-opening before-and-after case studies, and a panoply of urban design solutions, Retrofitting Suburbia presents a highly convincing argument for both the desirability and the feasibility of redeveloping failed suburban properties into more sustainable places.\" — from the Foreword by Richard Florida\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989957820645,"sku":"NP9780470934326","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780470934326.jpg?v=1761786028","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/retrofitting-suburbia-updated-edition-isbn-9780470934326","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}