Sprawl Recovery
Sprawl Recovery
Models to revitalize obsolete, unattractive roads
- Business strips (varied by TIER) retrofit
- Housing monoculture (varied by TIER) retrofit
Tactics to build networks and institutions locally
- Nurture skills and people, political agency
- Stabilize towns and their citizens’ security
- Improve people’s right to pursue opportunity
- Support their path toward advancement
- Retain commercial wealth within the town
20th C. society inflated land use – compelled by cars
- Freedoms, government supports, cultural change
- A new country: high resource use, housing inequity
Dominant, systematic, comprehensive sprawl ecology
- Auto dependence generated integrated techniques
- Construction, finance, insurance, zoning, marketing