(2012-02-25) Dunham Jones Retrofitting Suburbia

Interview with EllenDunhamJones, author of Retrofitting Suburbia (ISBN:0470041234, pub 2008), *the quintessential guidebook for making sprawl (Suburb) more Sustainable.

We’ve got about 250 projects in the database right now. We categorize them according to three different overall strategies. The first is simply re-inhabitation with more community-serving uses. There are loads of examples of dead big-box stores, or dead malls, that have been re-inhabited with libraries, schools, medical facilities [or] religious facilities... The second category, redevelopment, is where you tend to get the environmentally sustainable features. That’s where you see an underperforming property more or less bulldozed and urbanized—building on top of parking lots and putting in much more up-to-date green infrastructure... The third category, which is really quite surprising, is re-greening.*

Perhaps another approach to 2012-04-05-LewisAndRobbToeholdDevelopment?