Retrofitting Sprawl

Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form

Planners, geographers, designers, and architects present research grounded in diverse locales including Phoenix, Seattle, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. metro areas. The authors address head-on the most controversial aspects of sprawl—issues of power and control, justice and equity, and American attitudes about regulating private development.

These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book presents an overview of current thinking on ways to fix, repair, and retrofit existing sprawl.

Chapters by planners, geographers, designers, and architects present research grounded in diverse locales including Phoenix, Arizona; Seattle, Washington; Dublin, Ohio; and the Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. metro areas. The authors address head-on the most controversial aspects of sprawl—issues of power and control, justice and equity, and American attitudes about regulating private development. But they also put these issues in practical contexts, bringing in examples of redesign that are already occurring around the country, including the retrofitting of corridors and the repurposing of cul-de-sacs. Whether fixing sprawl requires a “cultural shift” in thinking or a “coordinated effort” by local government, these essays testify that a combination of forethought and creative thinking will be needed.

Contributor: Emily Talen (Edited by), Julia Koschinsky (Contributions by), Brenda Case Scheer (Contributions by), Gerrit-Jan Knaap (Contributions by), Aviva Hopkins Brown (Contributions by), Rebecca Lewis (Contributions by), Matthew Salenger (Contributions by), June Williamson (Contributions by), David Dixon (Contributions by), Ellen Dunham-Jones (Contributions by), Nico Larco (Contributions by), Marc Schlossberg (Contributions by), Dave Amos (Contributions by), Gabriel Diaz Montemayor (Contributions by), Nabil Kamel (Contributions by), Benjamin W. Stanley (Contributions by), Aaron Golub (Contributions by), Milagros Zingoni (Contributions by), Whitney Warman (Contributions by), Christian Solorio (Contributions by), Galina Tachieva (Contributions by), Emily Talen (Contributions by), Wesley Brown (Contributions by)

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