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Urban retrofitting

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In a case study of the Belmar neighborhood of Lakewood, Colorado of the former Villa Italia Mall, the retrofit of the property resulted in the following:
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school of thought, which aims to undo the sprawl and flight from urbanized areas that occurred in the US and Canada after
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In short, there are several issues that modern society faces that are either caused by or exacerbated by
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is a combination of policies and phenomena done with the goal of undoing or remedying the effects of
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and infill development to combat sprawl are key to this. It often follows the
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There are several other cases of successful retrofits, including downtown
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especially in regard to residential density, and rezoning to encourage
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This phenomenon uses underutilized lots, parking lots,
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Index

Urban Retrofit
urban sprawl
adaptive reuse
new urbanist
WWII
Ellen Dunham-Jones
June Williamson
Georgia Tech
CUNY
urban sprawl
economic development
climate change mitigation
environmental justice
car dependency
public transit
Congress for New Urbanism
greyfield
land use
walkability
Silver Spring
Urban sprawl
Infill
Walkability
Zoning
Mixed-use development
Sunk cost
Green retrofit
Gentrification
Urban renewal
Urban decay

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