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.
What’s remarkable about Dunham-Jones’s anecdote about families living in the Atlanta suburbs? What are some of the other “costs” of commuting from the affordable fringe of a metropolitan area to the city’s center?
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