Reforming Suburbia
Subtitle: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 14, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780520241664
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; New towns - design & planning; Sociology; Irvine (Calif.); Social Science; California; Maryland; Texas; Sociology - Urban; Architecture / General; General; Cas, âEtudes de; Case studies; Collectivitâes nouvelles; Columbia (Md.); Planned communities; United States; Woodlands (Tex.); âEtats-Unis
First sentence: It was the late 1960s and early 1970s. The planners, designers, and developers were in their twenties and thirties or just a little older.
Description: The 'new community' movement of the 1960s and 1970s attempted a grand experiment in housing. It inspired the construction of innovative communities, designed to counter suburbia's cultural conformity, social isolation, ugliness, and environmental problems. This text examines the results of these experiments.