Reforming Suburbia
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Reforming Suburbia

The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

  1. 394 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reforming Suburbia

The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands

About this book

The "new community" movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities that were designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This richly documented book examines the results of those experiments in three of the most successful new communities: Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Columbia in Maryland, and The Woodlands in the suburbs of Houston, Texas. Based on new research and interviews with developers, designers, and residents, Ann Forsyth traces the evolution, the successes, and the shortcomings of these experiments in urban innovation. Where they succeeded, in areas such as community identity and open space preservation, they provide support for current "smart growth" proposals. Where they did not, in areas such as housing affordability and transportation choices, they offer important insights for today's planners, designers, developers, civic leaders, and others interested in incorporating new forms of development into their designs.

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Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. LIST OF TABLES
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. 1. The New Community Experiment
  6. 2. The Irvine Ranch
  7. 3. Columbia
  8. 4. The Woodlands
  9. 5. Organizing the Metropolis
  10. 6. Alternatives to Sprawl?
  11. 7. New Town Planning and the Paradoxes of Private Innovation
  12. Appendix A. Ahwahnee Principles, Charter of the New Urbanism, and EPA Smart Growth Principles
  13. Appendix B. Census Data for Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands, 1980–2000
  14. Appendix C. Study Methods
  15. Appendix D. Criticisms and Benefits of Suburban Growth with Evaluation of Case Study New Communities
  16. Appendix E. Densities of Typical Residential Villages in Irvine and The Woodlands
  17. NOTES
  18. REFERENCES
  19. INDEX