Tag: suburbia
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Memphis, Aerotropolis?
The Memphis Airport Is on a Mission to Become Its Own City But whether America’s cargo capital can support a real urban center remains to be seen. CityLab, Aug. 28, 2014 Quick: Name the busiest airport in America. It’s not LAX, and it’s not O’Hare; it’s not Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson or Miami International, the jumping-off point […]
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Don’t Forget the Burbs
Architect, May 2013 Remember when we were going to save the suburbs? In 2008, Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, and June Williamson released Retrofitting Suburbia, a handbook for turning sprawl into walkable, sustainable, more urban places. The book got national media attention, Dunham-Jones gave a TED talk, and for a while, dead malls were the topic du […]
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Bing in the Burbs
The Architect’s Newspaper, Feb. 27, 2013 Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson put the phrase “retrofitting suburbia” into the urbanist lexicon back in 2008, when they published a book about a movement to turn dying malls and car-choked strips into mixed-use, walkable places. Slowed by the recession, the movement roared back into view in Maryland this […]
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