Recycling Suburban Sprawl: Coming to Terms with an Existential Crisis

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dc.contributor.advisorBell, Matthew Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorGoldman, Julian Hulmanen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-07-04T05:34:13Z
dc.date.available2013-07-04T05:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.description.abstractThe sprawl development which typifies the American landscape has an uncertain future. Mounting costs, changing demographics, and an inherent instability in value threaten to lift some neighborhoods, gut others, and expand sprawl into the countryside in a relentless, destructive march. This thesis seeks to develop a strategy by which increased density and additional land uses may be inserted into existing tract housing developments as a means of protecting and improving our previous investments, rather than bulldozing and replacing them or seeing them laid to waste. These changes to the fabric of sprawl may lay the groundwork for breaking down barriers to further development and modernization which have been put in place by policy, systems of finance and land ownership, and the very nature of the places we have created. Adding density to current settlements may also reduce pressures to sprawl further, protecting the undeveloped wilderness beyond the city limits.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/14317
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledUrban planningen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledConstructionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDevelopmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHousingen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSuburbsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSustainabilityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUtilitiesen_US
dc.titleRecycling Suburban Sprawl: Coming to Terms with an Existential Crisisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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