Sprawl remains the prevailing growth pattern across the United States, even though experts in planning, economics and environmental issues have long denounced it as wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable. Sprawl is a principal cause of lost open space and natural habitat as well as increases in air and water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, infrastructure costs, and even obesity. It also plays a primary role in the housing meltdown plaguing the nation. But is it possible to repair sprawling suburbs and create more livable, robust, and eco-sensitive communities where they do not now exist? This new book answers with a resounding "yes" and provides a toolbox of creative approaches for doing just that. The Sprawl Repair Manual offers comprehensive guidance for transforming fragmented, isolated and car-dependent development into "complete communities." Polemical as well as practical, the manual is designed to equip readers - from professional planners, designers, and developers to regulators and concerned citizens - with strategies drawn from two decades of successful repair projects. In contrast to sprawl - characterized by an abundance of congested highways, strip development, and gated cul-de-sac subdivisions - complete communities are diverse in terms of uses, transportation options, and population. They are walkable, with most daily needs close by. There is a wealth of research and literature explaining the origins and problems of suburban sprawl, as well as the urgent need to repair it. However, the Sprawl Repair Manual is the first book to provide a step-by-step design, regulatory, and implementation process. From the scale of the region to the building - turning subdivisions into walkable neighborhoods, shopping centers and malls into town centers, and more - today's sprawl can be saved. Readers who have despaired of ever being able to "take back the suburbs" will find heartening news between the covers of this first-of-its-kind book.

Sprawl Repair ManualWednesday, November 18th, 2015 at 5:03pm

Galina just finished presenting for 1000 Friends of Florida Webinar, together with Ana-Marie Codina Barlick, CEO Codina Partners: http://www.1000friendsofflorida.org/sprawl-repair-for-floridas-communities/

Sprawl Repair for Florida’s Communities | 1000 Friends of Florida

See the PowerPoint! DPZ Partners’ Galina Tachieva and Codina Partners’ Ana-Marie Codina Barlick discuss how form-based codes and other planning and design tools can help Florida communities repurpose and revitalize their most auto-dependent zones into walkable and vibrant mixed-use nodes.

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Sprawl Repair ManualThursday, June 18th, 2015 at 11:21am

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WEBINAR: Sprawl Repair

Sprawl remains the prevailing growth pattern across the United States even though experts in planning, economics and environmental issues have long denounced it as wasteful, inefficient, and unsustainable. Sprawl is a principal cause of lost open space and natural habitat as well as increases in ai…

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Sprawl Repair ManualTuesday, June 2nd, 2015 at 5:08pm

Sorry there haven't been any posts for almost a year!

PlanSmartNJ Summit in a couple of days is a good excuse. Galina Tachieva will be giving the keynote presentation, discussing innovative strategies for the repair of suburban corporate office parks and retail centers in the larger regional context.

http://www.plansmartnj.org/2015-summit/

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Sprawl Repair ManualFriday, June 20th, 2014 at 3:43pm

Well said: "Instead of being a 'through' place, cities are now becoming a 'to' place, and to make a city a 'to' place, you can't have a 55 mile an hour thoroughfare through the heart of the city."

Nice Picture. Ugly Bridge?

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Sprawl Repair ManualFriday, June 20th, 2014 at 3:41pm

Yes, the bell is tolling for the mall as a suburban type, but its demise should be taken as an opportunity to create useful urban nodes in the vast landscape of sprawl. If Houston can do it (see CityCentre mall redevelopment), any city can do it.

The death of the American mall

Once-proud shots at suburban utopia left to rot as rise of online shopping and resurgence of city centres make malls increasingly irrelevant to young people

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Sprawl Repair ManualWednesday, June 11th, 2014 at 1:01pm

To achieve a real change we need to retrofit the neighborhood structure of sprawl and provide amenities/services within urban nodes, so that driving is reduced and even transit introduced.

"Developers are retrofitting the financial reality of the suburbs—from ownership to rental societies—without changing the suburban home whatsoever."

Why Renters Are Ending Up in the Suburbs

Most new homes being built in the U.S. are multifamily apartments, but more and more people are opting for an even cheaper rental option: the traditional suburban single-family home.

citylab.com

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