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Retrofitting
Suburbia:
Navigating From
Generic to Specific
Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today
<Think Tank>
Darryl Chen and Liam Young
The Geography of Suburban Space
Urban Geography Research Group
Royal Society of Geographers with IBG
Annual Conference
29 August 2008

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tomorrows thoughts today
expanding online catalogue
of ideas

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sutton’s eco suburb
proposal

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from Housing For A Compact City
Architecture and Urbanism Unit, GLA,
2003

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Sustainable Suburbia
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects
draft research paper, July 2007

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location within london

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hackbridge located
within borough wards

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initial site and
extended project
boundary

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agricultural ponds
open land
rifle range
trading estate works
farmland
river wandle flood plain
reservoirs/open space sewage works
informal bird reserve
filter beds
trading estate sports grounds
nature reserve
public gardens recreational open space
existing uses

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identified
infrastructural ring

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scale of proposition in
relation to the borough

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ring and existing
residential area

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existing topographies
and microclimates

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proposed residential
expansion

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proposed ring programme

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l m n
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game range high-density animal farming
market food transaction
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c waste processing and distribution
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d dating centre
e carbon-counting administration
f primordial garden
g human kinetic energy harvesting
h transit hub
i detention island towers
j flood zone stilt houses
k lavender fields
l recreational
m rail propaganda corridor and wind energy harvesting
n market

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ZONE
RING
SEGMENT HINTERLAND
urban strategies

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HINTERLAND
RING
strategy axonometric

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artificial topography

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Architecture and
infrastructure
Artificial
Topography
realization
of the ring
layers of proposed
development