Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places - PDF

Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as places tells the story of 12 communities Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places by Simmons B. Buntin with Ken Pirie with a foreword by Galina Tachieva is about the built environment (and the people and practices that help places to thrive). Taking a close look at 12 communities and examining the promotion of good urbanism, Unsprawl aims to encourage sustainable urban planning and urban design.  Full-color photographs and illustrations of 12 place case studies Unwinding the unsustainable ways in which we’ve built our communities over the last half-century is the most pressing challenge confronting planning, design and development today. Utilizing a dozen case studies from throughout North America, Unsprawl examines the visionary, controversial and ultimately successful strategies employed to introduce new patterns of development into a regulatory, cultural and financial landscape structured to encourage sprawl.As architect Galina Tachieva notes in her foreword,