{"product_id":"9781119149170","title":"Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCase Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eUrban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJune Williamson | Ellen Dunham-Jones\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eArchitecture \/ Urban \u0026amp; Land Use Planning\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCase Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by the authors of the highly influential \u003ci\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFull of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, \u003ci\u003eCase Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the authors:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJUNE WILLIAMSON\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor and department chair at the City College of New York's Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. She is the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDesigning Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb\u003c\/i\u003e (Island Press, 2013). \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eELLEN DUNHAM-JONES\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of architecture and directs the urban design degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was voted one of the world's 100 most influential urbanists by \u003ci\u003ePlanetizen and hosts the Redesigning Cities podcast\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors' first book, \u003ci\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley), was deemed \"the Bible of the retrofitting movement\" in the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune.\u003c\/i\u003e It was featured in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, CBS Evening News, \u003ci\u003eUrban Land, Architectural Record,\u003c\/i\u003e and received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 January 2021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWiley\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781119149170\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28.8\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379130167436,"sku":"9781119149170","price":63.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781119149170_5b4bd531-2618-41f2-8606-eb74b4aab3b1.jpg?v=1780207669","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781119149170","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}