Sprawl Repair Manual

"The successful strategies and highly effective illustrations of prototypical solutions in the Sprawl Repair Manual are extremely useful to both citizens and professionals eager to communicate the many advantages of reconfiguring sprawl into more compact, complete, and connected places. Packed with ideas, this book is a great read and will be a must-have reference for years to come!" (Ellen Dunham-Jones Professor in the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology)

Ko Wibowo said A Recipe for Sprawl Repair in All Scale. The book is very well organized and gorgeously illustrated. The step by step technique is repeated throughout different conditions and sizes of urban repair with diagrams, zoom-in views, and examples. It is like a recipe with instruction from how to cook for two to how to handle catering for hundreds and thousands. One missing component is vertical height. The. "under-emphasized need" according to Randall Arendt. This book is a very helpful resource, but a close examination of many of its before-after visuals (such as on page 115)reveals that as many as a half-dozen parking garages appear in the after scenarios, enabling the high densities to be achieved, with resultant walkability. My only criticism of the book is that so many examples are dependent on multi-story par. Excellent Book This is an excellent book on repairing sprawl, for the architect, planner or developer as well as for a lay person. It is well written and easy enough for a lay person to understand and explains itself very well and yet it is an excellent resource for anyone in the field. It is equally useful for planning new communities or fixing old ones. The diagrams in the

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. However, until now there has been no single guide that directly explains how to repair typical sprawl 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.. 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. This manual specifies the expertise that’s 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 prese