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The retrofit of suburbia: The office park
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New Urban News Technical Page by Andres Duany, Michael Morrissey, and Patrick Pinnell

Suburbia was conceived in the desire for blandly pleasant places. It sometimes achieved this, particularly where maturing landscape obscured infantile architecture. But visual satisfaction upon arrival at fullness now often obscures an underlying irony; suburbia has begun losing value, both because of technical obsolescence and generational uncoolness. To use a term intrinsic to our consumption-based society, the first generation of post-war suburbia (1945-1968) is “outtadate,” and elements of the second (1969-1989) are getting there.

The human-scale workplace
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Chapter 6 of the New Urbanism Best Practices Guide

Many workers like having their job in a downtown, town center, or other setting where they can walk out the door and find restaurants, cafes, stores, and other amenities. New Jersey’s State Plan calls for workplace buildings “in close proximity to a critical mass of housing, supported by institutional, civic, recreational and other such uses.” This fine-grained pattern is more enjoyable and in some ways convenient than conventional office parks.