RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 BOOGIE-WOOGIE: The Suburban Commercial Strip and its Neighborhood
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 41
OP 53
DO 10.3368/lj.18.1.41
VO 18
IS 1
A1 Anita Van Asperdt
YR 1999
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/18/1/41.abstract
AB Historically, shopping areas were located in the hearts of communities. Here shops were mixed and interwoven with public facilities. In contrast, commercial strips in post World War II suburban areas were planned as peripheral environments. They are spatially disconnected from surrounding residential enclaves. In addition, public life within commercial strips is only facilitated in very limited ways. In this article, spatial interventions are proposed that integrate existing suburban commercial strips with surrounding residential areas. Boogie-Woogie music and Piet Mondrian's painting Broadway Boogie-Woogie from 1942/43 are metaphors for the suggested changes.