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A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia This amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century's other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren't designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence. Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies. * Written by the authors of the highly influential Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs * Demonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places * Illustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. Most of all, it is intended as a useful guide for anyone who seeks to inspire revitalization, justice, and shared prosperity in places they know and care about.

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges

Introduction viiAcknowledgments xiPart I. Urgent Suburban ChallengesChapter I.1 Disrupt Automobile Dependence 3Roads, Streets, and Stroads 4Can't We Do Something About All This Traffic? 6Parking, Parking. . .and Parking 9Walk, Pedal, Hail, and Scoot 11Autonomous Urbanism? 13Urban Design Tactics for Disrupting and Reducing Automobile Dependence 14Chapter I.2 Improve Public Health 16The Burdens of Disease 17Category 1: Physical Activity, Obesity, and Chronic Disease 18Category 2: Emotional Health and Degree of Community Engagement 19Category 3: Likelihood of Being Killed or Injured in a Vehicle Crash 19Walk This Way: Linking Physical Activity to Physical Design 19Access: To Good Food, and to Healthcare 23Safety: Preventing Preventable Injuries 24Seeing Green: Biophilic Design and Mental Wellness 26Combatting Loneliness: The Importance of Social Connectedness 27Cleaning Up: Reducing Impacts of Polluted Air, Soil, and Water 27Well-Executed Retrofitting Improves Public Health 28Chapter I.3 Support an Aging Population 29A New Name: Perennials 29The Lifelong Community Model 30A Brief History of Retirement Living: Sun City and The Villages of Florida 31Learning Lessons from Retirement Communities 34Social Support: Reinhabiting Ghostboxes and Parking Lots into Amenities 34Housing Choices: Aging-in-Community at Malls, Strip Centers, and Office Parks 36Economic and Wellness Factors: Evolution of the "Granny Flat" and the Household Model 38Post-Car Life for Perennials? 41Chapter I.4 Leverage Social Capital for Equity 42Conceptual Frameworks for Increasing Equity Through Social Capital 43Demographic Trends in Suburbs as Drivers of Change 45A Framework for Asserting the Role of Design in Achieving Social Diversity 47Third Place Redux 48Social Capital in Ethnoburbs 49Providing More Housing Types and Choices, Including Units for Rent 50Protecting Apartments Under Threat 52A Right to the Suburb? The Public Realm 53Retrofitting the Suburban Social Body 55Chapter I.5 Compete for Jobs 56Generational Shift? 57Retrofitting the Office Park and Corporate Campus 60Urbanism as the New Amenity 62Reinhabiting and Regreening the Office Park 64Boosting Small Business by Reinhabiting Dead Retail 65Future Forecast for Jobs Competition 68Chapter I.6 Add Water and Energy Resilience 70Retrofits to Improve Water Quality: From Gray to Green 71Retrofitting Water for Resilience: Too Much Water 74Retrofitting Water for Resilience: Too Little Water 76Retrofitting Suburbia for Energy Resilience 77Adding Resiliency by Design 82Part II. The Case StudiesCase Study II.1 Aurora Avenue North 89Shoreline, WashingtonCase Study II.2 Hassalo on Eighth and Lloyd 91Portland, OregonCase Study II.3 Lake Grove Village 98Lake Oswego, OregonCase Study II.4 Phoenix Park Apartments 101Sacramento, CaliforniaCase Study II.5 Parkmerced 104San Francisco, CaliforniaCase Study II.6 The BLVD 111Lancaster, CaliforniaCase Study II.7 TAXI 116Denver, ColoradoCase Study II.8 Guthrie Green 121Tulsa, OklahomaCase Study II.9 La Gran Plaza 127Fort Worth, TexasCase Study II.10 The Domain 131Austin, TexasCase Study II.11 ACC Highland 138Austin, TexasCase Study II.12 Mueller 144Austin, TexasCase Study II.13 Promenade of Wayzata 152Wayzata, MinnesotaCase Study II.14 Maplewood Mall and Living Streets 157Maplewood, MinnesotaCase Study II.15 Baton Rouge Health District 160Baton Rouge, LouisianaCase Study II.16 Uptown Circle 163Normal, IllinoisCase Study II.17 One Hundred Oaks Mall 166Nashville, TennesseeCase Study II.18 Historic Fourth Ward Park 169Atlanta, GeorgiaCase Study II.19 Technology Park 174Peachtree Corners, GeorgiaCase Study II.20 Walker's Bend 178Covington, GeorgiaCase Study II.21 Downtown Doral 185Doral, FloridaCase Study II.22 Collinwood Recreation Center 189Cleveland, OhioCase Study II.23 The Mosaic District 192Merrifield, VirginiaCase Study II.24 South Dakota Avenue and Riggs Road 199Fort Totten, Washington, DCCase Study II.25 White Flint and the Pike District 203Montgomery County, MarylandCase Study II.26 The Blairs District 211Silver Spring, MarylandCase Study II.27 La Station - Centre Intergénérationnel 214Nuns' Island, Verdun, QuebecCase Study II.28 Bell Works 217Holmdel, New JerseyCase Study II.29 Wyandanch Rising 223Town of Babylon, New YorkCase Study II.30 Meriden Green 229Meriden, ConnecticutCase Study II.31 Cottages on Greene 233East Greenwich, Rhode IslandCase Study II.32 Assembly Square 236Somerville, MassachusettsIndex 245