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Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental

Architecture News - Feb 12, 2008 - 12:34   9028 views

A new way of understanding the growth of urban form leads to practical suggestions for reconstructing a more sustainable suburbia. Combining theoretical results with pragmatic experience — and combining “top-down” controls with “bottomup” processes — we offer guidelines for implementing small-scale changes that eventually lead to large-scale improvements. The goal is a re-integration of the urban realm, resulting in a more humane and sustainable environment. Importantly, this can be achieved by a minimum of new investment applied all at once. Changes need to be implemented over time, and subsequent interventions will respond to the success of the preceding ones.
www.math.utsa.edu/~salingar/suburbia.pdf