Document Type
Thesis, Senior
Degree
B. ARCH
Date
Spring 2009
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."
Recommended Citation
Lundberg, Patrick, "Sun City Blues: The Contemporary Urban Realization of Sun City, USA" (2009). Architecture Senior Theses. 81.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/81
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Additional Information
Advisors: Art McDonald / Robert Svetz