Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
Ellen talks about the cost the rise and fall of american suburb.
The cheap land that used to appeal to young families, who would buy
a house in suburbia and drive to all facilities from these residential pockets.
She says that the transport cost has doubled (with the rise of oil prices) and
is even more than mortgage itself.
Nowadays the generation Y living in suburbias do not have children,
they demand more urban life style. Demanding so called 3rd place
(1-home, 2-work, 3-play)
She talks about successful densification or eco-nomical/logical restoration of
disused car parks, shopping malls hand in hand with making walkable suburbs.
I THINK THIS IS THE REVIVAL OF VILLAGE/TOWN
making suburb an independent entity, from where one doesnt
have to drive every 5 minutes to the big city to buy milk or papers.
marta was right.
make it european, enclosed, 2 storey,
self sufficient.
maybe not colonias quite yet. but suburbs are going that direction.
precedents to be inserted promptly
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