Phelps, N;
(2015)
Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future.
[Book].
Urban and Industrial Environments.
MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, United States.
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Abstract
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 mass-production, mass-consumption economy. But alternate models for suburbia, including “transit-oriented development,” “smart growth,” and “New Urbanism,” have inspired critiques of suburbanization and experiments in post-suburban ways of living. In Sequel to Suburbia, Nicholas Phelps considers the possible post-suburban 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 post-suburban America, looking at Kendall-Dadeland (in Miami-Dade County, Florida), Tysons Corner (in Fairfax County, Virginia), and Schaumburg, Illinois (near Chicago). He shows Kendall-Dadeland to be an isolated New Urbanism success; describes the re-planning 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. Post-suburban politics will have to command the approval of the residents of suburbia.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future |
| ISBN: | 0262029839 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780262029834 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sequel-suburbia |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This chapter was originally published in the N. Phelps, Sequel to Suburbia: Glimpses of America's Post-Suburban Future, © 2015 MIT, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (pp. 1-15). |
| Keywords: | Architecture |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1476963 |
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