Suburban remix : creating the next generation of urban places /
edited by Jason Beske and David Dixon.
- x, 307 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Setting the stage. Urbanizing the suburbs : the major development trend of the next generation / From the rise of suburbs to the great reset / Suburban markets. Housing / Office / Retail / Case studies for walkable urban places. Blueprint for a better region : Washington, DC / Tysons, Virgina / From Dayton Mall to Miami Crossing, Ohio / Shanghai's journey in urbanizing suburbia / North York Center : an example of Canada's urbanizing suburbs / Dublin, Ohio : Bridge Street Corridor / The Arlington Experiment in urbanizing suburbia / From village to city : Bellevue, Washington / Planning / Placemaking / by David Dixon -- by Christopher B. Leinberger ; by David Dixon -- by Laurie Volk, Todd Zimmerman, and Christopher Volk-Zimmerman ; by Sarah Woodworth ; by Michael J. Berne -- by Stewart Schwartz ; by Linda E. Hollis and Sterling Wheeler ; by Chris Snyder ; by Tianyao Sun ; by Harold Madi and Simon O'Byrne ; by Terry Foegler ; by Christopher Zimmerman ; by Mark Hinshaw -- by David Dixon ; by Jason Beske -- by Jason Beske and David Dixon. Introduction / Part I : Part II : Part III : Part IV : Bringing it all together. Conclusion /
The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that powered sprawl have all but disappeared. Instead, new forces are transforming real estate markets, reinforced by new ideas of what constitutes healthy and environmentally responsible living. Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use suburbs have a hard time competing. Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live, work, play, and invest. The case studies and analyses show how compact new urban places are already being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis. Above all, Suburban Remix shows that suburbs can evolve and thrive by investing in the methods and approaches used successfully in cities. Whether next-generation suburbs grow from historic village centers (Dublin, Ohio) or emerge de novo in communities with no historic center (Tysons, Virginia), the stage is set for a new chapter of development--suburbs whose proudest feature is not a new mall but a more human-scale feel and form"--