REFITTING SUBURBIA

The adaptation of existing, twentieth-century buildings to present-day requirements is gaining importance as a planning task. This applies in particular to suburbia, which is dominated by single-family detached houses and industrial areas, and whose urban qualiti es are scarcely compatible with the requirements typical of city centers.In this book, planners and urban researchers present existi ng and possible future approaches for the restructuring of suburbia in the USA and Germany. This involves a wide variety of tasks, s uch as in...[Llegir més]