Overcoming unsustainability: Retrofitting American suburbs with high-density built environment

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-22

  Armstrong, P J ^a   Ali, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Compact communities; High density; Mixed use development; Planning strategies; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PLANNING SYSTEM; RECYCLING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865788177     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/SC120021     Document Type: Article

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