num_pages: 304
description: There is a wealth of research and literature explaining suburban sprawl and the urgent need to retrofit suburbia. However until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl elements. The Sprawl Repair Manual demonstrates a step-by-step design process for the re-balancing and re-urbanization of suburbia into more sustainable economical energy- and resource-efficient patterns from the region and the community to the block and the individual building. As Galina Tachieva asserts in this exceptionally useful book sprawl repair will require a proactive and aggressive approach focused on design regulation and incentives . The Sprawl Repair Manual is a much-needed single-volume reference for fixing sprawl incorporating changes into the regulatory system and implementing repairs through incentives and permitting strategies. This manual specifies the expertise thats needed and details the techniques and algorithms of sprawl repair within the context of reducing the financial and ecological footprint of urban growth.The Sprawl Repair Manual draws on more than two decades of practical experience in the field of repairing and building communities to analyze the current pattern of sprawl development disassemble it into its elemental components and present a process for transforming them into human-scale sustainable elements. The techniques are illustrated both two- and three-dimensionally providing users with clear methodologies for the sprawl repair interventions some of which are radical but all of which will produce positive results.
language: English
title: Sprawl Repair Manual
publisher: Island Press