Main entry:

Phelps, N. A. (Nicholas A.), author.

Title & Author:

Sequel to suburbia : glimpses of America's post-suburban future / Nicholas A. Phelps.

Publication:

©2015
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]

Description:

xii, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: From the modern suburb to the post-suburb of a second modernity -- Locating post-suburbs in a metropolitan context -- The suburbs and their contradictions : the post-suburban politics of a second modernity -- Politics and the private and collective dynamics of America's post-suburban future -- Kendall downtown : the past of new urbanism? -- Taming Tysons : post suburbia's present? -- Schaumburg : the post suburban future yet to come? -- Conclusion: After suburbia.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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. -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

9780262029834 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0262029839 (hardcover alkaline paper)

Subject:

Suburbs United States.
Urbanization United States.
City planning United States.
Urbanisation États-Unis.
City planning.
Suburbs.
Urbanization.
United States.

Added entries:

Urban and industrial environments.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291424
Call No.: BIB 235056
Status: Available