Sun City Blues: The Contemporary Urban Realization of Sun City, USA

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Patrick Lundberg

Document Type

Thesis Prep

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Fall 2008

Keywords

Sun City, retirement communities, Arizona, active adult communities, baby boomers

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"While providing a marketable, popular, and economically successful municipal entity, Sun Cities and Active Adult Communities manifest problems. Through their strict planning, restrictive ordering, and operative rules, these communities produce issues of: population segregation, formal homogeneity, discouraged density, and programmatic disconnect."

Additional Information

Advisors: Art McDonald / Robert Svetz

Recommended Citation

Lundberg, Patrick, "Sun City Blues: The Contemporary Urban Realization of Sun City, USA" (2008). Architecture Thesis Prep. 24.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_tpreps/24