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Chapter 3: The House that Sprawl Built, an examination of the residential component of CSS .

Chapter 3: The House that Sprawl Built, an examination of the residential component of CSS. Sprawl is made up mostly of housing The SFD is the typical residential model the SFD is the “elementary particle” of sprawl. “large-lot” SFD zoning The McMansion.

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Chapter 3: The House that Sprawl Built, an examination of the residential component of CSS .

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  1. Chapter 3: The House that Sprawl Built, an examination of the residential component of CSS. • Sprawl is made up mostly of housing • The SFD is the typical residential model • the SFD is the “elementary particle” of sprawl. • “large-lot” SFD zoning • The McMansion

  2. Residential building typologies in sprawl

  3. Issues of Private vs. Public Realm • American suburbanites have the finest private realm in the world; it’s clearly a superior product • Yet, our public realm is lacking, under-funded is some cases, and outright brutal in others.

  4. This was NOT the case in the pre-WWII American urban fabric.

  5. Consequences of this imbalance… • NIMBYism • Extreme segregation by income (by minute graduations even)

  6. Consequences of this segregation • Schools? • Fear? • Moving up means moving out • Moving down means moving out • Lifestyle/lifecycle changes means moving out

  7. Kentlands, MD: prototype TND“traditional neighborhood development” planned and built in the mid-late 1990s

  8. The Six Components of the TND • The Center

  9. 2. The Five Minute Walk

  10. 3. The Street Network

  11. 4. Narrow, versatile streets

  12. 5. Mixed Use

  13. 6. Special sites for Special buildings

  14. Suburban Affordability Crisis • Solutions to this problem….(all of which are technically illegal in most places) • 1: apartments above shops • 2: live/work units • 3: outbuilding (smaller detached apartment on lot site)

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