June 2013 Academic & Specialist Island Press

Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb June Williamson, foreword by Ellen Dunham-Jones

Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb
June Williamson, foreword by Ellen Dunham-Jones


Designing Suburban Futures is written as a response to the documented ecological, environmental, social and economic problems of the sprawling suburb. It is a call to action to achieve future resiliency in the aging and outdated suburbs. The book has two primary parts, the first of which provides the contextual vision for suburban change and highlights design opportunities and emerging strategies. Part two presents a vision based the best schemes submitted in the highly successful Build a Better Burb competition (see buildabetterburb.org).