Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as places tells the story of 12 communities

Unsprawl: Remixing Spaces as Places by Simmons B. Buntin with Ken Pirie with a foreword by Galina Tachieva is about the built environment (and the people and practices that help places to thrive). Taking a close look at 12 communities and examining the promotion of good urbanism, Unsprawl aims to encourage sustainable urban planning and urban design. 

Full-color photographs and illustrations of 12 place case studies

Unwinding the unsustainable ways in which we’ve built our communities over the last half-century is the most pressing challenge confronting planning, design and development today. Utilizing a dozen case studies from throughout North America, Unsprawl examines the visionary, controversial and ultimately successful strategies employed to introduce new patterns of development into a regulatory, cultural and financial landscape structured to encourage sprawl.

As architect Galina Tachieva notes in her foreword, “Whether they are downtown redevelopments, new greenfield villages, retrofits or ambitious sustainability experiments, the projects in this book demonstrate the long-needed revival of our thinking about urbanism.”

“The obstacles to overcoming sprawl are many, these projects show that with creativity and dedication, even the most distressed communities can chart a new course for their future. To create dynamic places, takes dynamic leadership.”
-Simmons Buntin, Author

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