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Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Postsuburban Future (Urban and Industrial Environments),Used
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How the decentralized, automobileoriented, and fuelconsuming model of American suburban development might change.In the years after World War II, a distinctly American model for suburban development emerged. The expansive rings of outer suburbs that formed around major cities were decentralized and automobile oriented, an embodiment of America's postwar massproduction, massconsumption economy. But alternate models for suburbia, including transitoriented development, smart growth, and New Urbanism, have inspired critiques of suburbanization and experiments in postsuburban ways of living. In Sequel to Suburbia, Nicholas Phelps considers the possible postsuburban future, offering historical and theoretical context as well as case studies of transforming communities.Phelps first locates these outer suburban rings within wider metropolitan spaces, describes the suburbs as a spatial fix for the postwar capitalist economy, and examines the political and governmental obstacles to reworking suburban space. He then presents three glimpses of postsuburban America, looking at KendallDadeland (in MiamiDade County, Florida), Tysons Corner (in Fairfax County, Virginia), and Schaumburg, Illinois (near Chicago). He shows KendallDadeland to be an isolated New Urbanism success; describes the replanning of Tysons Corner to include a retrofitted central downtown area; and examines Schaumburg's position as a regional capital for Chicago's northwest suburbs. As these cases show, the reworking of suburban space and the accompanying political process will not be left to a small group of architects, planners, and politicians. Postsuburban politics will have to command the approval of the residents of suburbia.
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