{"product_id":"designing-suburban-futures-new-models-from-build-a-better-burb-9781597262415","title":"Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuburbs deserve a better  more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs arent destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island  she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs  but also those emerging elsewhere with global urbanization. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today  dead malls  aging office parks  and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable  sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend  highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Islands highly successful \"Build a Better Burb\" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale  tackling systems such as transit  aquifer protection  and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns  others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use  shared networks. Designing Suburban Futures offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia  creating a vibrant  new suburban form. It will be especially useful for urban designers  architects  landscape architects  land use planners  local policymakers and NGOs  citizen activists  students of urban design  planning  architecture  and landscape architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666288435253,"sku":"ByrdShop_1597262412","price":72.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781597262415.jpg?v=1782427101","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/designing-suburban-futures-new-models-from-build-a-better-burb-9781597262415","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}