Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Dwell Magazine and Inhabitat.com are currently hosting a very fun exercise called Reburbia, a design competition dedicated to re-envisioning the suburbs. As explained on the project's website: "In a future where limited natural resources will force us to find...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Allison Arieff has a provocative post on her NYTimes.com blog ("What Will Save the Suburbs?"), questioning whether existing suburbs are beyond repair. She ponders the foreclosure crisis and the resulting abandonment of housing projects, and writes: "In urban areas, there's...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Writing on Newsweek's web site, Tony Dokoupil suggests that the end may be near for enclosed regional shopping malls as we have known them: "But what makes Xanadu [a huge mall under construction in the New Jersey Meadowlands] extraordinary...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
It is becoming ever more clear that the suburbs of the current century cannot look or function like those of the late twentieth. Environmental and economic forces both are requiring that communities be more walkable, more transit-accessible, and more convenient...continued→
