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Ways to Retrofit the City

Posted by: Nate Berg

29 June 2009 - 2:00pm

You don't have to tear a city down to make it green, according to this piece from the Boston Globe, which offers some emerging ideas.

"We can invent all the green technologies we like, but we can’t tear down blocks full of drafty old structures and start from scratch - to say nothing of the networks of streets lined with wiring, pipes, and tunnels that might be decades, even centuries old. The problem is especially acute in older cities such as Boston.

So how to improve the cities we’ve got? The answer: retrofitting."

The ideas suggested here for retrofitting cities include bikes-on-demand, a smart grid, and podcars.

Full Story: Urban retrofits
Source: The Boston Globe, June 25, 2009
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