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Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges by June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones


Retrofitting Suburbia series, today announced the publication of
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges.  The first in the series (2009) sparked a national dialogue on transforming and revitalizing our nation s communities, including what to do with the plethora of America s dying malls. The book was met with critical acclaim and was featured in The New York Times, CBS, NPR, TED, Time, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. The Chicago Tribune called it the Bible of the retrofitting movement.
Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia
Our ambition [in writing this book] was to engage with a larger, continuing set of challenges, given that suburbia ....

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Book on Suburbs Offers Ideas to Retrofit Them


 
Donald Trump vowed to protect the suburbs from low-income housing, but more Americans in poverty live in the suburbs than in urban areas, note authors June Williamson and Ellen Dunham-Jones.
Their new book challenges popular notions about who lives in the suburbs and offers ideas for reshaping them, Vice reported.
In “Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges,” the authors document 32 examples of redesigning the suburbs to respond to their new demographics and the preferences of those who live there.
One is repurposing parking spaces. The U.S. has nearly two spots per person, but in some places there are many more 19 in Des Moines and 27 in Jackson, Wyoming, for example. Dunham-Jones observed dryly that the country has “a right to park as opposed to a right to housing.” ....

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CNU Report Outlines Incremental Steps for More Walkable Suburbs


CNU Report Outlines Incremental Steps for More Walkable Suburbs
Transforming suburban sprawl is a massive undertaking, but these small steps can help communities understand their needs and assets and develop clear, actionable goals for the future.
January 21, 2021, 7am PST | Diana Ionescu |
Pedestrianizing the suburbs might seem like a monumental challenge, writes Robert Steutenville, but a new report from the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) and the Michigan Municipal League outlines a list of small, incremental steps that communities can implement to move toward less auto-oriented, more walkable and mixed-use neighborhoods. Reorienting suburban neighborhoods for pedestrians requires an incremental yet integrated approach, calibrated to local needs, prioritized according to public aspirations, and targeted to specific areas within the community. ....

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