Dunham-Jones Speaks with SmartPlanet on "Retrofitting Suburbia"

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 12, 2013

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"Imagine a suburban backyard swimming pool as a tilapia farm. Or rail transit on every big city corridor. That could be the future of “retrofitting suburbia,” a method of transforming existing suburban developments into sustainable, more urbanized locales. From Austin to Washington, D.C., cities across the country are already converting unused strip malls into libraries and dead suburban malls into college campuses. The future could be even more innovative."

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  • Created On: Mar 12, 2013 - 6:51am
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