Rewriting exurbia : new people in aging sprawl / Lawrence C. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Lawrence C., author.

Series:

Babel urbanization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suburbs--United States--Social conditions.

Suburbs.

Suburban life--United States--History.

Suburban life.

United States--Social life and customs.

United States.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

City planning--United States--History.

City planning.

City and town life--United States.

City and town life.

Metropolitan areas--United Staes.

Metropolitan areas.

Architecture and society--United States.

Architecture and society.

Ethnicity--United States--History--20th century.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

190 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Distribution:

Syracuse, NY : Stracuse University Press.

Place of Publication:

[Trento, Italy] ; [Barcelona, Spain] : ListLab, [2023?]

Summary:

"Leading the way for similar happenings worldwide, North America's suburbs are changing. They have become ethnically and racially diverse. As a result, these now-multicultural outskirts reflect the character of our socially varied world. This is threatening to some. In the long term, however, this social transformation and the potential spatial change accompanying it can provide essential elements to address suburbia's infamous isolation and monoculture. In light of this, this publication attempts to understand the significance of the future suburb, not only as a place for a diverse neighborhood culture but also, at a larger scale, as a new form of decentralized city."-- Back cover.

"Rewriting Exurbia: New People in Aging Sprawl explores the potential of new immigrant cultures in aging postwar suburbs to reimagine the future direction of these iconic built environments in today's exurban cities. Recent demographic and spatial change in suburban Asian and Latin American enclaves in the western US illustrate the opportunity to transform this low-density urban texture in ways that are socially equitable and engaging for all its future residents. New family structures and cultural aspirations combined with more complex functional and social needs increasingly inform new spatial practices and have been recently codifed in revised zoning regulations. Comparing these changes to those of a set of well-known cities through history reassures us that such physical transformation in the shared built environment, while often challenging and even painful, is natural and eventually beneficial. Connecting this projected change to a set of recent urban theories and design experiments offers examples of a new exurbia that can be a socially inclusive world when compared to the archetypal postwar suburb that is becoming culturally stagnant, and often socially and economically exclusive. Recent changes in ethnic suburbs call for a broader definition of urbanity itself. The term "urban" can no longer be limited to environments characterized by physical compactness in center cities but is now a term that is better defined by an increased density of functional complexity and social interaction."-- Distributor Syracuse University Press website.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Recent pasts and near futures

Mixing metabolisms : nrew people in aging spaces

Reworking the lawn : the new horizontal city

Toward a thicker future

Afterword. Experiments in rewriting exurbia.

Notes:

"Printed and bound in the European Union, November 2023."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788832080698

8832080699

OCLC:

1473353018