Ellen Dunham-Jones spoke in a TED presentation on retrofitting suburbia. If you’re interested in how metro areas can retrofit their suburbs into places that turn underused parking lots, mall sites and other moribund areas into walkable places with shops, housing, parks and accessible transit, this video is a worthwhile twenty minutes. In particular, Dunham-Jones mentions [...]
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A recent article in the Wall Street Journal looked at making suburbia more livable for people in their later years. The piece notes the work of the planning firm Duany Plater Zyberk in Mableton, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb trying to reduce the isolation that suburban street layouts and single-use zoning often bring. The plan has [...]
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In a guest post at Kaid Benfield’s Switchboard blog (of NRDC), Rachel Sohmer very nicely describes the issues around street connectivity, using a childhood example about how the suburban dead-ends and cul-de-sacs made even short trips “as the crow flies” long given all the obstacles. The below figures show the difference more street connections can [...]
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