December 15th, 2010 
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In my previous post I talked about how in the future we will be needing to retrofit our malls and redevelop our suburbs into mixed use communities that are human scale rather than reliant on the car. One great example of this is the redevelopment of the Cottonwood Mall in Utah. This mall is known for being the first mall in Utah and now is being known as the first mall to be turned into a neighborhood.
Posted in Adaptive Reuse, New Urbanism, Redevelopment 
Tags: Cottenwood Mall, mall, mixed use, neighborhood, new urbanism, retrofitting, Utah, walkable 
10 Comments » December 13th, 2010 admin 
In January Ellen Dunham- Jones talked at TED about the importance of transforming our existing suburbs into something tat is more sustainable and more inhabitable. “In the past 50 years we have been building the suburbs with a lot of unintended consequences” She says. She goes on to continue that she believed the next 50 years we will …
Posted in Adaptive Reuse, New Urbanism, Planning, Redevelopment Tags: mall, neighborhood, retrofitting, suburbs, TED, urban sprawl, urbanism 4 Comments »
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