December 13th, 2010 
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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 » December 8th, 2010 admin 
A new report finds that people who live in sprawling suburbs walk less for exercise and, as a result, weigh more and have higher blood pressure than those in more densely populated areas. The findings suggest community …
Posted in Planning, Transportation Tags: community planning, health, neighborhood, npr, study, urban sprawl 2 Comments » November 7th, 2010 admin 
Christoph Gielen is a photographer born in Germany but currently lives in New York. He has been taking pictures of landscapes in America, particularly pictures of urban sprawl. These photos (or aerial studies) are a look at land use in American and are meant to explore how art and the environment relate. These photos are meant to examine and reconsider the way we are designing the built environment. He understands that the way we are currently building suburbia is not sustainable and this type of development needs to stop.
Posted in Planning Tags: aerial, suburbia, suburbs, suburbs aerial, suburbs birds eye view, urban sprawl 2 Comments »
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