Building the New Urbanism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape

ISBN-13: 9780415538978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Aaron Passell

Opis

The New Urbanism is perhaps the most influential movement that has emerged in suburban design, planning, and development in recent decades. It proposes to reform conventional suburban development by 'building community'. This book asks 'why new urbanism now?' and provides a sociological investigation of this phenomenon.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Before the New Urbanism  3. Making a Movement  4. Reimagining the Suburbs, Beginning to Build  5. Surviving its Critics and Reinforcing its Position  6. Making New Urbanist Places  7. Conclusion: The Built Environment Is a Social Process

O autorze

Aaron Passell is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Furman University. He specializes in the urban and suburban built environments, their development and redevelopment, and associated questions of social equity and environmental impact. His current research concerns urban historic districts and processes of neighborhood change.