Contents -- Vision: A Role for Design in Suburban Resilience -- Exemplar: Building a Better Burb on Long Island -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Urban-Suburban Reciprocity -- A Call to Action -- Build a Better Burb -- Designing Suburban Futures -- Notes -- Vision:A Role for Design in Suburban Resilience -- Context for Change -- Pastoral Paradigm -- Streetcar Paradigm -- Visionary Paradigms -- Building and Selling the Dream -- Timeline:Buying and Selling the American Dream -- Cul-de-Sac Paradigm -- Sprawl Paradigm -- Notes -- Design Culture Responds to Sprawl:1960s to 2010s -- 1960s-1970s: The Vernacular and the Ordinary -- 1980s: Urbanism Revivals -- 1990s: Responses to the Decline of Public Space -- 2000s: Between the Local and the Global -- Notes -- Better Suburban Futures -- Lessons Learned from Retrofitting Suburbia Case Studies -- Three Strategies for Retrofitting -- Lot Scale: Boxes, Streetscapes, Housing Choice -- Policy: Revising Codes and Standards, Promoting High-Quality Design -- New Ideas Suggested by Build a Better Burb -- Regional Scale: Carbon, Water, Governance Structures -- Downtown Scale: Use Mix, Leveraging Culture, Schools as Infrastructure, Suburban Agriculture -- Lot Scale: Aging and Intergenerationality, Cottage Industries,Income Pooling -- Notes -- Exemplar: Building a Better Burb on Long Island -- Build a Better Burb 2010:Instructions and Commentary -- The Challenge -- Background -- A Very Brief History of Long Island -- Problems and Potentials of "First Suburbs" -- Providing Housing Choice and Affordability -- Stemming the "Brain Drain" -- Car-Free Mobility -- Equity, Access and Public Space -- Opportunities in Long Island Downtowns -- Jury -- Credits -- Winning and Noteworthy Competition Schemes -- Sited in the Setback: Increasing Density in Levittown -- Upcycling 2.0 -- AgIsland -- Building C-Burbia.

SUBHUB Transit System -- Long Division -- LIRR: Long Island Radically Rezoned -- Bike the Burb! -- LIFE Program -- HuB-URB -- Enter\\Shift -- HIP Retrofit -- Bethpage MoMA -- REpark -- Re:Define the Good Life -- The Living Market -- Reclaiming Community -- re-lief -- The 21st Century Right-of-Way -- The Articulated Strip or, How the Strip Mall Can Save Suburbia -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: New Roles for Architecture and Urban Design -- Selected Bibliography -- Online Resources -- Credits -- Index -- About Island Press -- Island Press Board of Directors.