Background
Warren, Roxanne was born on August 23, 1933 in New York City. Daughter of Courtney Conrades and Marjorie Warren (Lawbaugh) Brown.
(Decentralization and the flight to the suburbs have drain...)
Decentralization and the flight to the suburbs have drained the economic and cultural life out of many urban communities, while driving our consumption of land and fuel to new heights. But the option of conventional planning for higher densities raises the specter of concrete landscapes filled with cars. The Urban Oasis would contrast with this image. In this thoughtful and insightful book, architect Roxanne Warren makes a compelling case for the benefits of relatively high-density, but abundantly landscaped, mixed-use, walkable new "development clusters" - as traffic-calmed or pedestrian zones. To allow sufficient land for a green living environment, car parking would be located peripherally, and automated people movers would provide around-the-clock, readily available links to regional transit networks. Whether built on rehabilitated urban land, or threaded through land on former commercial strips, such human-scale communities would combine the sociabilities of urban living with fresh air and greenery, and would aim to resolve many of the intertwined population/congestion/environmental pressures of our time. The book is packed with case studies of existing pedestrian zones in Europe and the U.S. It also contains clear and illuminating descriptions of automated people mover technologies, and in doing so, bridges the gap between humanist and technological concerns.
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Warren, Roxanne was born on August 23, 1933 in New York City. Daughter of Courtney Conrades and Marjorie Warren (Lawbaugh) Brown.
Bachelor of Science, Skidmore College, 1954; Master of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, 1963; Master of Architecture, Columbia University, 1971.
Junior architect, Pokorny & Pertz, Architects and Planners, New York City, 1972-1975; staff architect, New York City, 1976-1977; staff architect, Richard R. Moger, Architect, New York City, 1977-1978; project manager, Peter Marino, Architect, New York City, 1978-1979; staff architect, project manager, I.M. Pei & Partners, Architects and Planners, New York City, 1980-1983; project manager, Gatje Papachristou Smith, Architects and Planners, New York City, 1983-1984; principal, Roxanne Warren & Associations Architects, New York City, since 1984.
(Decentralization and the flight to the suburbs have drain...)
New York state coordinator The Population Institute, Washington, since 1998. Contributor Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, since 1980, Fresh Air Fund, New York City, since 1980. Member new transportation system and technological committee Transportation Research Board, since 1994.
Member American Institute of Architects (co-chair architect for education committee 1990-1991), Advanced Transit Association (board directors since 1996), Regional Plan Association.
Married James Gordon McDowell, September 25, 1954 (divorced June 1959). 1 child, John Todd McDowell (deceased). Married Edgar Sonnenfeld, November 10, 1988.