Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental Strategy for Reconstructing Sprawl

Abstract

Urban Design”, publication expected in 2007. Abstract: A new way of understanding the growth of urban form leads to practical suggestions for reconstructing a more sustainable suburbia. Combining theoretical results with pragmatic experience — and combining “top-down ” controls with “bottomup” processes — we offer guidelines for implementing small-scale changes that eventually lead to large-scale improvements. The goal is a re-integration of the urban realm, resulting in a more humane and sustainable environment. Importantly, this can be achieved by a minimum of new investment applied all at once. Changes need to be implemented over time, and subsequent interventions will respond to the success of the preceding ones. INTRODUCTION. Although attention tends to focus exclusively on the particular modern phenomenon called “sprawl”, we must recognize that suburban expansion has existed since the beginning of cities. A city, whether planned or haphazard in its initial form, tends to grow organically as its population increases. Legal measures that check the possible

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