Retrofit & Renewal
Retrofit & Renewal
Country Town
Open land is raw material of cyclical suburban growth
- Destabilizing demand for services, businesses, roads
- Driving housing value, undermining security of many
Tactics for smart growth, revitalization, resilience
- Small increments revive American townscape legacy
- Durable: affordable community, shopping, working
Sprawl Recovery
Towns at any scale and location urbanize
- Evolve by systems different from their historic nature
- Building, transport, infrastructure, energy, food supply
Traditional town design avoids big town traps
- Templates: transforming local movement economy
- Controls: financial burden, impact on traffic /services
Principles for revitalization and resilience
- Protect countryside, habitat, and key open space
- Strengthen or establish small walkable centers
- Renovate streets to be pedestrian friendly
- Pursue context sensitive, incremental infill housing
- Invest in neighborhoods with infill, connectivity
- Redevelop commercial strips as mixed use centers