{"title":"June Williamson","description":"\u003cp\u003eJune Williamson’s works explore the transformative potential of architecture and urban design, with a keen focus on revitalising suburban landscapes. Her books offer insightful analyses and practical approaches to reimagining existing environments, blending thoughtful case studies with visionary concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders interested in the intersection of design, culture, and sustainable development will find her writing a compelling resource within the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e sphere. Williamson’s contributions invite a deeper understanding of how spaces evolve to meet contemporary needs.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"case-studies-in-retrofitting-suburbia-by-ellen-dunham-jones-9781119149170","title":"Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century’s other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren’t designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCase Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges\u003c\/em\u003e provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWritten by the authors of the highly influential \u003cem\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban places\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIllustrated in full-colour with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFull of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, \u003cem\u003eCase Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges\u003c\/em\u003e is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. 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It illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhile there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighbourhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, demonstrate how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changing demographic, technological, and economic conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRetrofitting Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e was named winner in the Architecture \u0026amp; Urban Planning category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) awarded by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471461499116,"sku":"9780470934326","price":104.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780470934326-retrofitting-suburbia-updated-edition.jpg?v=1775244109"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/june-williamson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}