Prior to the start of the Great Recession, with housing a magnet for equally intangible dreams and capital, the edges of our metropolises exploded with new exurban-ization, center cities sprouted fresh skyline-lifting high-rises, and in between downtowns and the fringes infill and redevelopment projects churned the suburban landscape. Retrofitting Suburbia, by the architects Ellen Dunham-Jones of Georgia Tech and June Williamson of The City College of New York, is a cross-continent compendium of new building typologies and host morphologies in that churning landscape. Labeling them "retrofits," the authors' overarching belief is that these projects collectively comprise a process of "incremental metropolitanism" whereby a "large-scale approach" can, and in their minds should, "systematically and sustainably transform suburban form" (xiii).
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