Retrofitting sprawl : addressing seventy years of failed urban form /

Retrofitting sprawl : addressing seventy years of failed urban form / edited by Emily Talen. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographies and index.

SECTION ONE EXISTING REALITIES -- chapter 1 From Sprawl to Walkable: How Far Is That? / chapter 2 Strip Development and How to Read It / chapter 3 Rezoning Montgomery: People, Politics, and Place / chapter 4 The Personal Decisions That Govern Sprawl / SECTION TWO CASE STUDIES -- chapter 5 Urban Design Tactics for Suburban Retrofitting / chapter 6 Suburban Downtowns / chapter 7 The Public Sector Steps Up -- And Retrofits a Zombie Subdivision / chapter 8 Walking to the Strip Mall: Retrofitting Informal Pedestrian Paths / SECTION THREE IMAGINED POSSIBILITIES -- chapter 9 Rethinking Residential On-Street Parking / chapter 10 Spaces of Indeterminacy: From Thresholds to Ecotones in Retrofitting Sprawl / chapter 11 Retrofitting the Cul-de-Sac in Suburban Arizona: A Design Proposal / chapter 12 Occupy Sprawl, One Cul-de-Sac at a Time / Emily Talen -- Brenda Case Scheer -- Rebecca Lewis -- Matthew Salenger -- June Williamson -- David Dixon -- Wesley Brown -- Nico Larco -- Dave Amos -- Nabil Kamel -- Christian Solorio -- Galina Tachieva.



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Urban renewal--United States.
Cities and towns--Growth.--United States
City planning--United States.


Electronic Books.

HT175 / .R487 2015