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Retrofitting suburbia - Ellen Dunham-Jones

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Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead "big box" stores reinhabited, and parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands.

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What’s the relationship between vehicle miles driven in the U.S. over the past few decades and the rate of population growth?

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We’re driving more miles, but it’s proportional to the rate of population growth

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We’re driving more miles, and it’s a lot more than we can explain away through population growth

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We’re actually driving fewer miles, because of rising gas prices, though the population is growing

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Siri, help!!?!!

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