RETROFITTING SUBURBIA - Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

Guest Speaker – Author, Ellen Dunham‐Jones, AIA
November 12, 2009
6:00 – 7:30 pm reception immediately following
USF College of Public Health Auditorium
13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd. ‐ Tampa, FL 33612
1.5 AICP CM Credits

RSVP by November 10, 2009 to the APA‐FL Sun Coast Section: debra.hempel@hdrinc.com

Please join the APA‐FL Sun Coast Section in cooperation with the University of South Florida College of Arts & Sciences Urban & Regional Planning Program and College of Public Health for a lecture by Ellen‐Dunham Jones AIA, author of Retrofitting Suburbia, Understanding Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs.

The last fifty years have been dominated by the reproduction of sprawl development patterns. The big project for the next fifty years will be retrofitting sprawl into sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the exurban periphery, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing out‐of‐date suburbs. But there are signs of change. There are now numerous examples of aging, stand‐alone shopping malls and office parks that are being replaced with multi‐block, mixed‐use town centers with public squares and greens. Ambitious new public transit networks are being proposed, constructed, and integrated into rapidly redeveloping suburban contexts. Archaic zoning ordinances are being overhauled to permit higher‐density, mixed‐use development, especially near new transit stations. New housing types are attracting a mix of young professionals, empty nesters, and families. In short, there is evidence of the urbanization of suburbs.

Dunham‐Jones will present strategies and advantages of both urbanizing and re‐greening the suburbs based on her book Retrofitting Suburbia, with co‐author June Williamson, a comprehensive guidebook for architects, planners, urban designers, and developers that illustrates how existing suburbs can be redesigned and redeveloped. Dunham‐Jones, an architect and noted expert on the subject, will show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions.

Ellen Dunham‐Jones, AIA, is associate professor and director of the architecture program in the College of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. A registered architect, Dunham‐Jones had previously taught architecture at MIT and the University of Virginia. Her ongoing research and scholarship is in the intersection of contemporary development patterns and contemporary architectural theory. She serves on the board of directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism and the editorial board of the Journal of Urbanism.

RSVP by November 10, 2009 to the APA‐FL Sun Coast Section: debra.hempel@hdrinc.com

Directions and parking: The College of Public Health is located at the northwest corner of the USF Tampa Campus (Bruce B. Downs and Fletcher Ave). Visitor parking is located in lot 38C. See map: http://usfweb2.usf.edu/PARKING_SERVICES/maps/Parking_Map_2008-09.pdf


Thank you to our Sun Coast Section Annual Sponsors:

Mark Bentley, Esquire, AICP
Board Certified by The Florida Bar as an Expert in City, County and Local Government Law

One Tampa City Center, Suite 1650, Tampa, Florida 33602
Ph: 813.223.5050 Fax: 813.223.3555
www.bentleylawfirm.net
and
CARLTON FIELDS, Attorneys at Law
4221 West Boy Scout Boulevard, Suite 1000
Tampa, Florida 33607
Phone: 813.223.7000 - Fax: 813.229.4133
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RSVP by November 10, 2009 to the APA‐FL Sun Coast Section: debra.hempel@hdrinc.com

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