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Reshaping Metropolitan America

Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030
  • ISBN-13: 9781610910330
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Arthur C. Nelson, Foreword by Earl Blumenauer
  • Price: AUD $90.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2013
  • Format: Paperback 168 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Landscape art & architecture [AMV]
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Nearly half the buildings that will be standing in 2030 do not exist today. That means we have a tremendous opportunity to reinvent our urban areas, making them more sustainable and livable for future generations. But for this vision to become reality, the planning community needs reliable data about emerging trends and smart projections about how they will play out. Arthur C. Nelson delivers that resource in Reshaping Metropolitan America.


This unprecedented reference provides statistics about changes in population, jobs, housing, nonresidential space, and other key factors that are shaping the built environment, but its value goes beyond facts and figures. Nelson expertly analyzes contemporary development trends and identifies shifts that will affect metropolitan areas in the coming years. He shows how redevelopment can meet new and emerging market demands by creating more compact, walkable, and enjoyable communities. Most importantly, Nelson outlines a policy agenda for reshaping America that meets the new market demand for sustainable places.


Foreword
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction
Chapter 1. Major Market Trends and Demographic Changes
Chapter 2. What Americans Want
Chapter 3. Households and Housing
Chapter 4. Space Needs for Jobs
Chapter 5. The Reshape America Index
Chapter 6. The Benefits of Reshaping Metropolitan America
Chapter 7. Agenda to Reshape Metropolitan America
 
Notes
References and Selected Bibliography
Index
"Finally we have a comprehensive view of how the American Dream is changing and why. We are a market driven culture and this important book lays out the new market forces; demographics, costs, environmental impacts, and quality of life. The good news is that they all lean in the same direction—Smart Growth will dominate the next generation of development."
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