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.
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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Setting the Stage
1. Urbanizing the Suburbs
2. From the Rise of Suburbs to the Great Reset
Part II: Suburban Markets
3. Housing
4. Office
5. Retail
Part III: Case Studies for Walkable Urban Places
6. Blueprint for a Better Region: Washington, DC
7. Tysons, Virginia
8. From Dayton Mall to Miami Crossing, Ohio
9. Shanghai's Journey in Urbanizing Suburbia
10. North York Center: An Example of Canada's Urbanizing Suburbs
11. Dublin, Ohio: Bridge Street Corridor
12. The Arlington Experiment in Urbanizin Suburbia
13. From Village to City
Part IV: Bringing It All Together
14. Planning
15. Placemaking
Conclusion
About the Contributors
Index
IP Board of Directors
"Dixon and Beske have put together a real-world guide to introducing walkable development in suburbs. I recommend Suburban Remix to anyone who lives, works, or invests in a suburb. It shows how lively, walkable urban places can thrive in suburbs. More to the point, it argues that suburbs no longer can thrive without walkable urban places."
